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

I've sorted it! I'm on MSN on the Mac! Look out for me, it'd be nice to have a chat!

Excellent!

It might be a few weeks though. I'm off on a seaside holiday starting Friday the 13th.

Ooo, lovely!

Where are you going? How long for? Are you going to get withdrawal symptoms?

Seven days in a house on the beach in Delaware.

And the place is wired with 'Net access, though I'll be having so much fun playing that I doubt that I'll be online much.

That sounds good!

It's useful to have the net, even if its just to find out cool places to visit while you're away!

Have a good time!

We've just got to keep the kids from exploding with excitement before Friday.

When I got home from work yesterday my youngest was in her bathing suit and was sitting amidst her sand pails and shovels...

Aww, that's just *so* sweet!

I remember going off in the car on holiday to Cornwall singing Cliff Richard's Summer holiday at the top of my voice when I was little.

Didn't life feel wonderful at that age?

Last year we talked about making boats in the sand for them to ride in, and I can't wait to give that a try...

Perhaps I'll grow up some day?

That's good - especially if the tide comes in and starts lapping around the boat... Take a good spade with you and you can make a multi-seater one! Then you find that lots of the children in the beach climb in, and all make friends.

I remember you telling me that last year and it sounded brilliant!

I've never seen anyone do that here in the states, but I will in a few days I reckon!

It starts a plague of them off!

I hope you have a wonderful holiday Jimi - and your girls have a lovely time!

See you in a few days time...

I'll be all tan then, you won't recognize me.

I'll have to stock up with some brown smileys specially!

Do you want the ones with the pink bum or the brown bum?

I reckon that and the soles of my feet will be the only white bits left after a week at the beach.

mmm, brown palms... How do you Americans *do* that!?

It's stick-um(tm) from my golf clubs' grips.

Ahh, 'stick'. I've been threatening to write a Guide entry on that for years!

It's based on the theory that children exude it from their pores. It's a mixture of honey, kid and dirt. It covers all of the windows inside your car, all cds, mirrors etc... You just have to bring a stick vunerable surface inside a kidhouse and it automatically transfers to the surface, a bit like static.

What do you think? Good theory?