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

Hi JYY

Further to Tuesday's message, a quick one in case Suffolk is flooded tomorrow.

I've been struggling through the comedy bestseller "Azur Like It" by Wendy Holden.

The author is supposed to be a top women's mag journalist who once worked on a local Yorkshire paper (like the heroine)... but the writing in the novel is pretty amateurish.

Clumsy sentence structure, awkward transitions from one paragraph to the next, a fascination with nobodies like Posh & Simon Cowell, more f-words than an Outkast song, and barely funny jokes. The best idea is a band that does Northern covers of Velvet Underground songs: "Waitin for me bus" instead of "Waiting for the Man" etc. If you want Northern humour, Stuart Maconie's biog is far funnier.

See you after the flood

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Ooookay - to be honest, it's been quite sunny this morning since I woke up at 6.45. A few market stalls missing this week at the Thursday market, probably because of the bad forecast.

There was strong wind yesterday afternoon (blew my baseball cap off at one point!) and the rain was steady from 5pm to early morning. I'll have to re-attach the blackberry branches to the wooden post in the garden, but that's the only real damage we had.

Hope your area is

Hi You !!

Popped into my local library today and looked at all the people using the pcs. About a dozen in all. Tried, without success, to see if anyone was into the message boards !

I don't know who I look like. My friend's son always says I remind him of Maureen Lipman, but her husband says I'm like Jan Leeming. Both are wearing their rose coloured glasses methinks. I should think most people are thinner and less hairy than Michael Moore (she said dryly).
So you have to look fairly normal then.

Belgian Chocolate did have a message pulled because I saw it. And yes, it was in Dutch. He was replying to Catharina. I don't know, but he seems all right and makes me laugh ! I know he's not you

Physcho on the JV board is I think being a little naughty, but at times ridiculously funny, in a weird way of course.

Speak soon my friend,

Love



There's nobody there. Whoo whoo.......

Is Suffolk dry ?

Somerset has gone under.

Sneaked into library and borrowed a Mary Higgins Clarke novel.

Will you still speak to me ?

Will I read it ?

Jennifer

Still standing. Sunflowers are out ! Yippee. I bought them at a charity sale for 50p a plant. Bargain.

Very windy still. Our local market gets very depleted when the weather is bad. In the last week or so, we have had a couple of local charity events cancelled because of the weather.

So cold, wet and miserable.

Haven't seen much television, apart from the news. Am in desperate need of a holiday. All I want to do is relax and feel the sun on my back. Oh, yes, and the food's has to be good, and the wine drinkable !

I think Italy is beckoning............

Posted on the boards this evening, but nobody about other than Helen and Pond Girl.

Speak soon, don't get blown away,

E

Hi JYY

Cold & grey this morning - and my oldest niece is about to go off on her very first non-family holiday with school-friends. In fact I know a couple of people who are heading down your way next week on holiday. Perhaps they'll bring the sun with them?

I once met Maureen Lipman in Harrow's BT shop - at a book signing for that book of "You've got an ology" scripts from the Beattie adverts. Very nice person, in real life probably exactly like she is on TV.

Dunno what's happening in town at the moment - hardly any market stalls, Iceland is closed for 8 days of refurbishments, the big Woolworths is closing for TWO weeks for refurbishments (so how are they going to sell any of that Back To School stuff which has been advertised since early May).

Supposed to be a Family Fun Day at the local park this evening - but a bit too cold, methinks!

Joey

Hey, Joey,

It's not too bad here. Sun shining and a bit of blue sky. Not very much blue though.

See Jeremy's tie has raised over £700 on e bay. I have used e bay once, and got exactly what I bargained for and at an excellent price.

Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny intervals, so I will make full use of the dry spell and get out and about.

Garden is looking battered with the high winds so may have to have a session tidying up.

Somerset, Dorset and Devon are all lovely counties. If I could afford it, I would buy a house near the coast. Love the sea.

Have a good week-end,

'The Undead'

Hi ???

Surprisingly enough, the drizzly weather turned into sunshine yesterday evening (though we didn't go to the park) and it's still sunny this morning.

What the 'ecky thump happened at the Coffee Bar yesterday afternoon??? Obviously someone suffering from Friday-afternoon-bugger-all-to-do. You'd think people would have better things to occupy their tiny minds.

(P.S. I miss all the fun )

I've found a very handy computer manual at the library:

"Visual Quickstart Guide to Google & Other Search Engines" by Diane Poremsky

The book is so up to date, one of the screen images shows a list of Google results including "John Kerry" and next Tuesday's new Channel 4 dating show "Average Joe"!!

I probably won't do too much this weekend - watch the British GP and T.d.F. and the final episode of CSI: Miami.

Hi Rich,

Yes there was a right do on the board ! Somebody called The Upsetter got all hoity toity with PP, then Clive....in fact everyone. Oh, it was fun.

I did so want to tell him what a prat he was but the halo descended and I turned the other cheek.

For goodness sakes, who wants to argue over nonsense !!
But you missed a good session ! PP said he hadn't had quite as much fun since last year when he had the sessions with the BNP boys.

Weather awful. Typical July. The weather for the rest of the 'summer' is pretty dire by all accounts.

Slugs are out en masse. Got the salt on their tails today. Is that crueler than the slug pellets I wonder.
The hedgehogs are still about, so they must be gobbling up a few slugs each night.

Nobody at all about on the message boards this evening. Felt like putting out an 'is anybody there' message, but became involved in multiple phone conversations with a friend and my sister and her husband.

Liked your vampire. Is that still classed as a smiley ?

Your library is a tad out of date in some areas, but wonderful in others with decent opening times and music.

Who is Belgian Chocolate is the question on everyone's lips..........

Goodnight, speak soon,

love and

Jen

JYY, what an you are!

If you click on "Full Smiley Index" and wait 5 minutes for it to load.....you will find the vampire, angel etc in the supernatural smileys.

I am having bad luck with computers today. This morning, just as I was about to post a long reply to you, the library server went down and I lost the whole thing! Then, just now, I pressed two buttons by mistake and somehow deleted my reply to Catharina

Don't talk to me about the Coffee Bar - Tuesday morning I got zero replies to a post, then on Wednesday my perfectly harmless "Franglais" post was modded after being untouched for 20 minutes.

Yesterday (Thursday) I decided to avoid the CB. As it turned out, I didn't have time to look at it anyway. By the time I'd checked my e-mails (none) and H2G2 messages (none) and wrote a message to , my login session time was up and there were other people waiting to use the terminal.

Which is why I groan and roll my eyes whenever the R2 crowd find yet another website to move to. I don't have enough time each morning to check every set of boards and find out the major happenings of the previous evening's postings.

I'll probably join Nick's message boards (www.r2fm.co.uk) because I posted a message to Ken Pollard on the BBC R2 site and got no replies to it. Message was about a new CD by one of Ken's favourites, so I'll have to contact him via Nick's Pirate Radio 2. But how much of my login time will Nick's site take up?

H2G2 is the least time-consuming site for me to use, but also the site which other people use the least!

I'm just in town to return a rented DVD, "School of Rock" which was reviewed last night on Radcliffe's show. In case you don't know, the film is about a fat loser rock-guitarist (played by Jack Black) who is kicked out of his band just before a big contest, and also threatened with eviction by his flatmate's nagging girlfriend. To get rent money, he poses as his flatmate, working as a supply teacher at a posh prep school, and discovers that the students in his class are talented musicians...

Great film. The kids (aged 10) are actually all brilliant musicians & singers in real life, and the girl who played the "bad singer" in the film had to take a morning of lessons to teach her how to sing badly!!! If you listen to the kids' commentary on the DVD, they know a lot about classic rock and nothing about the Spice Girls! Great film, and I thought that the nagging Jewish girlfriend was pretty hot too!

Hope you have a great weekend if we don't speak in the meantime