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

how are you just wondering did the ecard I sent reach you?

Had a fantstic nights sleep last night and I am on top of the world..amazing what a little rest can do for your outlook and state of mind

Hello
Thanks for the card (Did you have to pay for it? )
I hope you liked my too!
We are having warm and sunny weather a month earlier than usual, the kids are delighted to go roller-skating and skate-boarding, I did some running round a flower-bed in the yard and found that after all I'm probably not as close to the sponge condition as it was beginning to seem.
My daughter is almost through with her essay, she needs to choose the pictures for illustrations, preferably showing the animals in their natural habitat.
I'll email as soon as I get down to writing some stories which need telling...
How have your days been? ed a little bit at your thread with Nicky and loved your lamentations about scholars writing books with a single intent to molest otherwise happy readers
Are you getting used to this scholarly mess? I never got down to writing any dissertations as the prospect would scare me stiff
Bye for now, have to start my day - my gorgeous sunny blue-skied spring-bearing day
(PS if only someone could give the roads and pavements a good shower...
The authorities' constant attempts at lawn-making sadly fail and the amount of mud and dust thus created is, at times, unbearable...)

Two of my kids are having a holiday at school, and so is my mother's nurse's son, which means she (the nurse) is off to her home town
to stay with her kid for a week and we are looking after mum. She can only stay alone part of the day, fortunately the kids are really helpful.
See you
Take care

I took out a subscription to the card company I think it cost me 10 dollars australian and I can send as many cards as I want during the year. iam not long in from work and I am beat it has ben a big week and I am due back in Perth tomorow for my nephews birthday and to take Betha nd a group of her friends to an indoor fun part for the second part of her birthday celebrations so please excuse my short response will sit down Sunday afternoon and bring you up to date

please excuse terrinble spelling and tyhpng just a sign of my tiredness

Have been bogged down by a sea of work for university and work and I have just been invited to run a workshop for a national conference to be held here in Perth in five weeks and I foolishly agreed... now I have to design the workshop... Please pray for good time management skills for me and wisdom as to what to put in and what to leave out.

How are you and whats new? Ah drat I just went to get a snack some chicken left over from dinner which I left on the bench but one of the cats has beat me to it oh well I shouldn't be eating this late at night. I am not really hungry just tired so think I will crwl into bed instead.

Hope you and yours are well

HooRoo ( Australian slang for goodbye)

Hi there,
It's half past three in the morning and I should get some sleep. The full moon always keeps me awake. No grudge, it also makes me feel much younger and walk with a spring.
I've read your thread with Nick and, with your permission, if I keep lurking, it'll save you both some time and ink. But why France, of all places, if I may ask?
mummy's nurse is back, which makes things enormously safer.
If you have some interesting stuff on homeschooling at the conference, could you share it with me (via e-mail)? We'll be looking at education in my course soon, and it would be interesting to look at a completely
different way it can be approached.

Delighted you are lurking why dont you come and on the same thread would love to send you info they have three speakers coming from America one is a proponent of natural learning which i really want to hear....

As for France I have no idea ever since I was a little girl I have watched as my parents come up with ideas that are genreally outside the "norm" and just go off an do them. We once spent a whole year learning signal flags for sailing, the whole Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta thing and morse code at dinner times in preparation for dads buying a boat and us being a sea....he did get the boat a 12 birth 65foot long two mast hulk of a thing but not till after I had left home....thank the good Lord

I know what you mean about moonlight always makes me feel young and as if something magical will happen if only I can stay awake long enough

Have just noticed that Nic has gone off line at least ways his name is not coming up on whose on line....

the children are up now walking on the treadmill it amazes me how something that is a source of work for me is seen as a fun thing to do by them, never the less it is an important peiece of equipment for me if I am to maintian my fittness level while being forced to sit at a computer so much for the next three years or so while I study...Yucky yucky

I was wondering what this treadmill thing is?
Just a training machine?

Its an electronic machine that I walk on... I can set it to a slow walk or a fast jog as well as various inclines. I use it mainly late at night just before I go to bed helps me sleep but it means I can use my daylight hours for other things and when it is a real stinker of a day the last thing you want to do is exercise in the heat

Hello
How are you these days? Did you manage to get some peace and quiet?
We've had blizzards, a hail, a snowfall with the sun shining. I was worried about the trees as the tiny young leaves had just started to appear, but they seem to be coping
and

Hello

Yes I have been too slack now time to start working again

The Easter weekend saw me cooking for12 people all weekend only three of whom were adults the rest are all children including four hungry teenage boys who have eaten like the food will run out tomorrow yesterday for dinner I thought I would make omelettes and keep it simple three and a half cartons of eggs later (12 in each carton) 1 tub of sour cream, 2 loaves of bread, 2 capscium, 2 onions, 1/2 kilo of cheese 1 bunch of parsley and two cartons of orange juice we had fed the mongol hoardes

Tj my eldest and his friend along with my girlfriend and her son have gone now while my twin nephews leave tomorrow however tonight Tom is brinignmy daughters best friend home with him and I think I have a family of three coming tomorrow for linch just as well I don't mind cooking.

Hope the snow doesn't ruin your plants

Yeah, the weather is gorgeous again, though a bit cold.
How is your autumn?

So far it is dry but they are forecasting rain the last three days of this week it is still very warm at night and I am still using a fan at night

I am so looking forward to winter finally getting here I do so love being snuggled inside watching it rain from in front of my fire or working in the garden in the rain...soon the fire ban will be over and we will be able to light a bon fire at night and toast marshmellows and sit outside without the mozzies attacking just gazing up at the night sky and all the stars.

It has been so nice not being able to go anywhere I have the perfect excuse not having a car at present...in fact at the momnet I am considering neve getting it back....okay ask me again next week and my answer might be different.

I remember you had problems getting food from your 'corner shop' now you haven't got your car How are you coping?
Ah, We seem to be off to our dacha asap - the trains have a break between 10am and 2pm, so
I like the look of our Easter Greeting in English:
'Hristos Voskresie' - 'Voistinu Voskresie'

Have a nice day

Problems with getting the food in but none watching it go out the door

So far the week is shaping up like this today we have 9 extra for the day but they go home late this arvo then two more arive for the weekend and will leave on the train late on Sunday. Then tomorrow a family of four is coming for the day and may sleep over to the Sunday but not 100% sure about this...My daughters friends mum arrives Sunday to take her home shes been here since Tuesday and then Monday and Tuesday we are just us five again Wednesday will see my sons friend arrive and Thursday another of my daughters friends will also be here not sure how long son's friend is staying but daughters friend's mum will come Sunday after church to pick her up probably with the rest of the family too.... Some where in amongst all of this I will keep writing workshop material for May, keep working on second assignment and writing out essay questions for Uni....I may also fit in a small breakdown between 4 and 5 am on the 18th

Nice to see you online!
If I had a schedule like yours for a couple of days, I guess I'd never wish to see another human being again
the 18th What's Narnia? (unless I missed something in your thread with Nick)
Three of my kids had holidays this week, and little Kate stayed off school to keep them company, so we did some walking in the park - the squirrels beg for nuts (won't agree to have sunflower seeds) and little orange-breasted chaffinches http://www.wildbirdfood.uk.com/images/chaffinch.jpg
get in your way expecting you to feed them. The new grass has appeared and the mallards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard
(isn't this net thingy a marvel)
in couples got out of the freezing water to get some healthy food.
Must get some nuts and bread crumbs, as well as a camera and go again today... It's 0 centigrade, ugh... Snowing again.

Hello

I love your Chaffinch it's beautiful, I am definitely all peopled out at present I had a friend ring Sunday afternoon to see if they could come up Mondy or Tuesday and I had to say no explaining we really needed a couple of days to ourselves to recover. I love seeing people and having them here so long as we get some time to ourselves in between otherwise it just gets to hard and we all feel like imploding.(insert exploding smiley here)

Have sent you some pics of Narnia and an explanantion not bad photos of Rafe either.

The rains arrived last night thank God .....things were getting very desperate water wise with me now filling the big tub and telling whoever was cleanest to get in first We are suppose to get rain everyday this week its amazing how one night of rain can change the fruit tress so much they are all looking fresh and green again and the compost heaps are now damp enough to start breaking down again. Will have to go over later and see how much water we actually got in the tanks but I think it's a good start.

I seem to be doing okay at uni though I still haven't got my first assignment back yet and I am getting impatient. Still not missing a car...do feel sorry for tom though having to fit doing the shopping in too poor sweetheart

What happened with your daughters assignment...my son and his girlfriend celebrate being together 1 year today even though they are very young they do seem to really care about each other and I think God has made a good match there, I don't think there getting married young will be bad so long as they wait to have children for a bit. They are talking about spending a year travelling which I think is a wise plan.

Well I am going to respond to a few more threads hang out some washing peel some potatoes for dinner and then go for a walk on the treadmil while I watch some star trek....hope you have a good day

Hello
My big daughter has almost finished her project, the presentation is on the 27th April.
My 12-year-old son says he would like to write to your boy, what do you think? All of mine are LR and Narnia fans.
The little one says she wants to write to 'an 8-year-old', but unfortunately she can't write in English yet.
Gotta Dash