h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have been nosing about in your personal space and notice we have many things in common.I was wondering if i may add you to my list of friends.At the moment this list consists of 1,namely Jab.who is trying to help me sort ouy my messaging problems.The only problem i can forsee is,as a member of p.u.d.d.i.n.g. you would be irritated by my horrible habit of being optomistic,and,cheerful.Please don't hold this defect in my persona against me.Only yesterday i marched into my bank and told them their service cr-p,whilst singing i just called to pay morgage, to the tune of similar title by stevie wonder!See i can moan too.

Hi, bluesue. Of course you can add me to your list. And I'll add you to mine.

I'm actually an optimist myself, and prefer to have a positive outlook on things. I joined p.u.d.d.i.n.g. ages ago, when I was losing a job I loved very much because I'd developed an illness for which there is no test and no cure, and which is considered by many to be simple laziness. I didn't want people belittling my sense of loss. P.u.d.d.i.n.g.'s a useful place to go even if you're an optimist who's going through a bad patch.

I smiled when I read about your tea chests full of (mainly) poetry books. You seem like a person after my own heart. Welcome aboard the h2g2 ship, me hearty!

Thanks for that! I was reading all about your M.E.that,my dear,would knock the smile off any ones face.I have been having a bit of a battle with breast cancer for the last 2yrs.I won.My daughter said,of course you did,nothing,not even cancer,should argue with you!I had the advantage of knowing that it would end one way or another,it must be a nightmare in your case not knowing when it will all end.My Local pub is very old,and while i was still ill,i noticed some writing on one of the beams,it says something like 'I complained because i had no shoes,then i saw a man who had no feet.)I go there quite a bit to read it,and they do a decent as well as the view over the harbour.
My father used to say shoulders back,chin up.This is stupid advice as you can't see where you are going and you will fall over the cat

Glad to hear that you won!

A nice quote, that, about the shoes. I've seen it before somewhere: isn't it a folk saying or something?

I went through a phase of taking down graffiti I'd seen on university lecture theatre desks. They had their own brand of profundity; for example:

"Time is an illusion.
"Lunchtime doubly so."

And:

"HELP
"I'm trapped in a history lecture."

S true about the graffiti!i love the wit of some of it.With jabs.help we sorted out my message problems,so you can now leave messages if you want.What a palava! i managed to keep my other message board as well.