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

Hello friend

I read your personal space well done can't decide whether or not to try and add pictures to mine or just leave it alone

Am going to jump off the deep end and try writing an entry on vegetarian cooking for meat eaters should imagine by the end I will look like this well the dog is barking again none stop better go and see if I can't stop him before he wakes the rest of the house too

What makes the dog bark? Animals? Is it a guard dog?
I hope you both get some sleep.
Thanks for the flowers - what do you call them?
Good night. o

This particular bunch are kangaroo paws with trailing vines of jasmine intersperesed with cowslip orchids

I am awake again and off out the door just thought I'd quickly check and see if you had responded

As for the dog I am blowed if I know one expert says separation anxiety , I think its the kangas , my husband is ready to shoot him , and no not really all I know is sleep deprivation is a cruel and unusual punishment especially when I take for such nice walks .

Anyway I am off to the big smoke

what do you think to many icons now

By the way how do you goodye in Russian

Privet! Dobroye utro! (it's early morning here)
I'm not sure what G'day stands for. Is it more like a 'Good morning'(Dobroye utro) and 'Good afternoon'(Dobryi den') or rather like 'Hello?(Privet)?
Do you mean there are actual kangaroos hopping around and teasing the poor dog? I thought they were mythology!
No kangas for me. Ceaseless noise of thousands of cars all through the night.
Fortunately, the dog doesn't mind them.
Have a G'day!
And I'll try for a change...

Excuse the spelling I know I'll get it wrong and I may even have the wrong phrase it has been so long But....here goes..... Dova Jena (Good Evening) Karka ste (How are you) and maybe this means absolutely nothing but gibberish to you

I had not realised how similar to Serbian Russian is as Dobroye utro and Dobryi Den are exactly the same in Serbian….. I wonder how many other words are the same

Yes the kanga are for real I wish they were mythology when he starts barking…. we also get emus, brush wallaby's, goanna, echidna and a host of other creatures for the dog to go bananas' over.

G'Day is a common form of greeting here in Australia short for
Good day, it means in our slang….. hows it going....nice to see you.... how are you...what’s new.... not bad for four letters and one apostrophe

We have a host of colourful phrases here….. some of my favourites are:
Flat out like a lizard drinking .....translation.... I am really busy
Mad as a cut snake.....I am angry ....or
if applying it to someone else that they are insane
Stone the crows......expression of surprise
Fair dinkum .....genuine, reliable,
Rigi didge.... honest true or you could say true blue meaning the real thing

Well that has probably bamboozled you enough tonight
and while the dog is quiet I am off to grab some sleep.

G'day, dear friend! (Pity I don't know your name ).
My daughter is doing an English project on Australia (inspired by our correspondence, I suspect ). She's found a lot of information in online encyclopaedias, but it would be great to hear some advice from actual citizens. Had we a couple of weeks to explore the country, what are the places one should see?
That is, what are your favourite spots?
Looking forward to your family's personal 'Guide to Australia'. I understand it's copyright, but we'll ask your permission to include bits of it - or all of it - in Masha's project.
o

My name is Hayley whats yours?

We would love to help with your daughters project and maybe you could do one for us on your part of the workd, feel free to use what ever you want will send something through in a few days right now they are busy consulting on what and where

Hello again ,

Thought we would list our fav sites state by state,some are well known some are not .

Have listed a couple of web sites with short movies let me know if you want more but I thought if you put these into google you may get more info

Western Australia The best state but we are biased

Mining/Tourism

Kununara - North of the state
Karijini National Park home of the Bungle Bungles
Coral bay also known as Ningaloo reef and home to one of our best loved authors Tim Winton
Albany - down south
Margaret River- also down south

www.westernaustralia.com
www.naturebase.net


Northen territory Tourism/Australian Defence Forces

Kakadu if you go to www.travel.com/en and press the lonely planet video guide there is a good short movie on Kakadu


Tasmania
Touruism /Fine foods

Huon trail home to the huon pine the oldest trees known to man and a beautiful wood the trees are over 3000 years old in places
Freycinet Peninsula
Cradle Mountain
Salamanca Place - spent many a saturday morning there browsing
Port Aurthur - a lot on australias convict herritage

New South Wales

Politicians/business

Broken Hill - classified as outback it started out as a mining town and has attracted over 40 of Australias major artists, such as Pro Hart, who now have gallery's there and where they go to paint
Mungo National Park
Snowy mountains
Tamworth - home of country music in Australia
Barrington Tops
Port Stephens - Tomaree national Park home to whale watching sharks and dolphins and where we lived for five years beautiful
Western Plains Zoo

Victoria not so keen on this state my self

Supposedly our Cultural trend setters

Grampians National Park
Mornington Peninsula
Ballarat
Bendigo
Gippslan high country

South Australia

Wine/Mining/Nuclear testing

Coober pedy home to opals and underground city where people live in dug outs really worth checking out

Ceduna - Eyre peninsula amazing coast line
Port Augusta - part of the nullarbor trail
Eucla and Streaky Bay
Clare valley - beautiful and wine country

Queensland

Bananas/Fishing/Holidays/Balmy Politicians

Great Barrier Reef though I think Ningaloo is better though not as well known
Cairns - gate way to outback
Townsville - gate way to rain forests

ACT

More blooming balming politicians

National gallery Science, Art and the new and old Parliment houses Personally think Canberra is sterile and unimaginative, too stuffy for my liking everything is perfect

Didn't bother with the capital cities in each state figured they would be easy enough to find
thought you might find this useful to

Favorite singer - Joan Sutherland, John Farnham
Author - Tim Winton
Painter - Jack Absalom
Favorite Movie - The Lighthorseman
Favourite TV Show -Spicks and Specks ABC
Radio - 720 am radio national
Humanitarian - Fred Hollows

Hope this helps you

How really kind of you! I'll do some research and post back later.
Take care.
Elena.(Please call me o. I'm still scared of this site)

Hello Weirdo07

I had not realised that you were nervous about this site but I can understand your feelings it must be uncomfortable when English is your second language.

Even with English being my first language it has been a real experience getting around and figuring out things,

Having said that I am blowed if I can follow the last lot of instructins I got from Travellor in time this could be a real learning curve for me as I really need to see things done before I can replicate them not sure how to get around this reading things and trying to learn from print first

To date I have done a lot of lurking which feels disshonest for me, like I am a peeping Tom but it seemed wisest while I get a handle on things not being ofay with cyber space before now but I think I am getting the hang of it and I have met some really nice people like Rev Nic and Venus and of course you

Anyway I look forward to hearing what you came up with

Dear Hayayfi, I've been lurking too, and where? at your 'garden' thread! With your permission I'll give it more time - you know I love your world: the space, the colours, the sounds, the smells, the freedom of it, plants and animals...
You make everything so vivid and palpable
I am exaggerating, of course, when I say I'm scared - wary is a better word. (And I don't think it's for language reasons - it's partly my being a novice on the net and partly coming from a completely different culture). I feel at ease with some hootooers, too, even if they aren't aware I'm around.

Goodmorning

Nice that we are both on line at the same time....You take your time I am more than happy to stick with cyber names friend .

I would like to hear more about what is outside you front door I know you said you live in the city but does this mean there is no wildlife I mean birds parks etc I can't imagine not hearing birds in the morning. My favorites are the maggies or magpies they have this warble that they make which I think is the sweetest sound in all the world.

At present we are having huge flocks of birds dieing across the state and no one knows why. I know our honey eaters are way down on last year and I saw only a few splendid fairy wrens this season as well. I am hoping that its because we trimmed so many of the trees back, birds don't like it when you change their landscape and it takes up to a year for them to get use to changes in their environment the nesting boxes we put up over two years ago are only just starting to be used.

We have a comet that can be seen at night at present just after the sun has set but only from the coast so we are going to try and take a gander on Saturday when we go to Perth to celebrate my sons birthday

Was the info I sent the sort you were after?

Hello fellow
In the process of ing I came across a posting you had written that talked about your countries coming back to a place of being able to pursue religious freedom by the individual I would really like to know more about this if you are comfortable talking about it sometime in the mean time
I am off to bed big day tomorrow off to the big smoke

What do you need the big smoke for when you have all this fine clean air around?
I stumbled across this just now

This deserves to be quoted among the top ten quotes of the day.
So have I, so have I.

We went to town to celebrate my sons birthday it was the first time that he has had a party as he has never wanted one before and while we were there we did some comet gazing it was amazing.

I am suppose to be busy getting tax file records together for our new accountant hence the reason I am avoiding and playing here instead.

However the master approaches and so back to work I go

I've got another crazy idea, Hayley dear. How about introducing our husbands to each other, won't it make them a bit happier about the wild behaviour of wives? We could use this thread and I'll translate for my husband What do you say? Mine feels a bit lonely when I'm online.

I will ask hubby and see what he says though I think hes kind of enjoying having something to rib me about

Okay Tom said he'd give it a whirl so here goes

G'day mate,

What do I call you How about your spare time and what do you do for a crust, and what do you like to do in your spare time which has probably increased if your wife spends anything like the time my wife does on this site


I'd like to hear about your day to day experiences do you get much western TV or music, a lot of our stations are on line how about yours


My day's revolve around the building industry they start early and finish late I 've retrained three times now to stay employed how about your self is work steady there

Do you have a long summer and do you get out much to the countryside Hayley says you live in the city

My hobbies are carpentry, electronics (tinkering) and model trains

catch you round

Tom

G'day, Tom! I'm very pleased to meet you. My name is Alexander.
My occupation is akin to yours, it also involves wooden things - only I don't carve or make them, or build from them. What I do is painting icons. Do you know what they are? It's an ancient christian traditional art, painting images of saints and traditional scenes, like Nativity etc, on wooden boards. If you ever saw a photo of an Orthodox church you could see there are usually lots of icons there. There is usually an iconostasis (a tall 'wall' of several rows of icons) separating the altar from the main space of the church. The iconostasis is often decorated with wood carvings, so I often work together with artists who specialise in carving from wood. There are many churches that need icons, but they don't always have money, so my job sometimes turns out to be a hobby.
I have very little free time. When I have some, I spend it studying my family history. Our name can be found in handwritten books that date back about 500 years, and it's a challenge to read them. But it's exciting and sometimes really funny.
We have a summer house an hour's ride from the city where we spend the summer.
Vsego Vam dobrogo (all the best to you). A.

Gday alexander,
I'm familiar with the icons because I grew up in the catholic church but I really didn't consider where they came from.I am trained as a carpenter and although I enjoy this trade I've found that my employers (some 30 or so)use me for the jack of all trades cap I wear.Our building industry is flourishing and consequently some trades are lacking in there "finish" so they get someone like me to "fix-up all the mstakes and damage that occurs before the new home owner takes possession.We chose to move into a country region and the kids enjoy the personal freedom of that "space" offers but I travel 3hrs a day to work and back which for a lot af Ausies is becoming the nornal as city prices are becoming inhibitive.I have also looked into my families geneology but I have to confess I wasn't very impressed with what I found.
Speaking of free time, I get the impression that time seems to be getting in shoerter supply, we seem to be busier today than our ancestors were yet we have all this labour and time saving technology is this your experience also or am I dong something wrong.

Hope this finds you well regards tom