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

Where has everybody gone? Do I take this personally? Or do I take a deep breath and look for new playmates?

Well I'm here Lady Dig, I don't know about anyone else but I have just been to put the badger/fox food out so was not at my pooter when you called

Hope you are ok. it is hot and humid here and I have been in the garden for most of the day so I am discomknockerated! You know my Spellcheck didn't object to that - amazing!

The swifts are screaming overhead and the slugs are slugging it out on the ground I can hear a bird whose call I can't place and it is driving me s!

How are your hedgehogs these days?

Websailor

LadyDig, it is quiet tonight isn't it?

I am going off now as I am very tired, but will look in on you tomorrow.

Websailor

Dear seraphic Digitalis,

Of ccourse you must NOT take it personally dear friend.

I am sorry that I have not been online butI have been very busy with a host of things in the flat. At least organising so that other people can help me.

Could I suggest that you write a bit more about yourself. T see that you had a small holding. Why do you not write about it in your journal.? There are a lot of people who enjoy gardening and growing vgetables who would be very willing to chat to you about things.

also do you have a famiLy.? I think that you were one of the people that Peta introduced me to. Do tell me about yourself. W hat are your hobbies.
Also I think that if you write in your journal and also reply to other threads which interest you it all helps.

Young People are incredibly busy nowadays and have so much to do. I think that one must admire them. I see that you posted your message at 3 a.m. Do you have problems sleeping.? do your read a lot.? do you play bridge?? Lots of questions. Incidentally as you have a computer, do you surf the net. I am finding so many fascinating things on the net, which make me want to know more and more about things, and also make me realise how little I know!!

I have just found out that there is a bridge club in the town where I live. It has raised muy spirits so much because I love bridge. Do you play any games on the computer. ?

Anyway, dear SD. do not be depressed. go and write a lovely journal entry about yourself so that every one can share in your life.


I have just turned 80 and had a lovely party. Now I have toget myself into shape for keeping up all the things I still have to do. !!

with much affection
Christiane
AlsoRan 80

Very dear Websailor

My goodness, 9 hours ago i.e. 11 p.m. yesterday, I was in the land of Nod. !! I do not know how you manage to do all the many things you do in your life my

and now you are worrying about a bird whose call
you do not recognise. If your hearing is like mine - which I am sure it is not - it is probably someone whistling in the road. !!

which remionds me. Whilst I was still living in Cape Town I used to go for lovely walks in the forest of Signal Hill. One day I was walking and I heard a very prounounced call of a bird. well, I was able to imitate it quie well, and this poor bird began to get quite cross and agitated. I was still walking, and he obviously thought that I was another bird invading his territory As I walked and he called, I then replied and then I suddenly realised that the poor bird was thining that I was a rival.

I was proud of the way I had imitated his call, but stopped when I realised that it was upsetting him.

Unlike you I have absolutely no idea what kind of bird it was. |In fact in Zim we had a bird tale and one of the visitors was a white browed robin. They have the sweetest song \i have ever heard. I loved hearing them I could distinguish them because they were so totally beautiful and bewitching.

Have a good day, my so dear friend. I wish I could help you with all the feeding you have to do. .

With very much affection

Christiane
AR80

Hello, Christiane,

i am so glad you dropped in on this thread. While you were offline and moving I had told LadyDig that I would introduce the two of you once you were back with us, and I forgot so

LadyDig is of the same esteemed and venerable generation as your good self so I suspect you might have a few things in common. Incidentally she has a wicked sense of humour

Websailor

Hi honey,

So she is probably laughing her head off at the suggestions I made.

ah well. As I have now been introduced to killer whales which I honestly do not think I knew ever existed, slowly, one by one, my beautiful illusions of life are crumbling down

It reinds me of the argmuments between Voltaire and J.J. Roussouw No prize for guessing whose side I was on. !!

XME AR80

First, let me say I recognize this feeling all too well - one moment you're all wrapped up in dozens of conversations and the next moment they've all gone dead - and somehow, yout think you deaded them.

Not at all, my friend, not at all - pace, engagement and activity levels shift widely in the wonderous place known as h2g2.

Have patience, use the <./>RandomEditedEntry</.> (and keep pressing Refresh), check the <./>FrontPage</.> - you're bound to find some activity somehere!

Goodness me! A plethora of perspicacious people! Thanks everyone for restoring my comfort!! I suppose this could be the time of year when people do disappear, and their reasons are truly honourable. Repeat ten thousand times 'I must not be so ** sensitive/anxious/demanding...or even "whatever"'

Glad you're all apparently OK, though I do wonder if I should be glad to be associated, however loosely, with a killer shark??

Hedgepigs are fine, thanks, eating better than we do - and almost certainly more! (Time for the Archers. Don't go away. Departs at a canter, well, stagger....and returns wondering why she bothered.)

Christiane - I 'did' both Voltaire and Rousseau at School (in the days when you /worked/, though /I/ could well have done more); in fact I do feel that Jean-Jacques was largely to blame for my wanting a small-holding in my fifties. Where the * did /those/ years go?
I still feel that this ought to be the best of all possible worlds, but somebody's hiding the bit I'm looking for!
BTW, I think somebody's pooterclock must be a bit haywire, as even I am normally not computing in the wee small hours, in fact my Master requires me in the Presence (I must have hit Ctrl instead of Shift, 'cos I suddenly got P. preview, which I didn't recognise and I Couldn't Do Anything)by 9pm. My days are far too short to do everything I want, but it's better that way than The Other, don't you agree? (As for Oblivion.....)
That's enough. Gotta go. Love to y'all.
Dig

Dig

Then you will remember

"Il faut cultiver son jardin..."

Possibly the most selfish words written in any language.

I am pleased you have recovered your sang-froid.

And now I must away to do work which I have sadly neglected whilst frolicking with whales.

go well,

Christiane
AlsoRan80

Good morning, ChristianeAlsoRan80
'Il faut....' Indeed I do remember! In my case, however, it's literally true, otherwise we should be like the Sleeping, well, & as the weeds surrounded our, well, bungalow!! Only the rain and the back prevent me labouring in the vineyard (figurative) 24/7,as I believe They say, which is better than being brought to a halt by a dislocated hip, which happened 8 or 9 times, and was Not Funny. We have Moved On, as They also say.

Now, however, it's the necessity of feeding the Master which drags me away from the screen. Reluctantly.

Be happy.

Dig.

Hi D

Do you really have a Master?

Or doyou just call him Master?

My happiest marriage - and I have had a few, was the one where my husband called me his "other half". that was idyllic, wonderful and boy was I a loved and cherished wife.

Ah! those were the days.

Cook a nice lunch for your man

Christiane

AlsoRan80

Hello again AR80,

No, 'Master' is the word I use on the boards, as OH makes me crawl. I think that's for oneself, but of course, it depends how you feel yourself. Some people may use it as I use Master, or Hiself, or Him in the Greenhouse!!

I've been invited to open a friend's stable block tomorrow. I thought it was all a joke, and was preparing a kind of pantomime appearance imitating a Royal Personage with a paper hat and so on, but apparently they're having guests from afar, the time is strictly announced, and I shall be Required to Wear a Hat, so it looks as if my planned performance would have been an unpardonable mockery. Ie mailed her to ask for more detail,but she hasn't yet replied. Have I offended her? I suppose it's better to do it now than tomorrow..... Oh dear.

Dig

LadyDig, you are incorrigible, really you are I hope you haven't really upset your friend! i hope you have a suitably posh hat.

Now, I say other half, because that's how it feels we have been together so long. Sometimes it is 'im downstairs or 'im indoors and unmentionable names when I am cross! But Master - Never!!!!!

Each to his (or her) own

Websailor

Oh Mistress mine!!

I think Master is a joke!

how are you?

Much affection

Christiane
Also ran80

Yep, 'Master' is a joke, and 'Other Half' is obviously literaly apter - which, if it isn't a proper word, should be - like you, Webbie, I can think of lots of epithets.....departs briefly into dream world...

Yesterday? No, it was fine. Actually, so was the weather! I trimmed a sunhat with a scarf and Christmas baubles. Hid the hideous, any road up (as They say). My speech began 'My husband and I..' but was in no way intended as a kick against HM, whom I venerate, BTW. All in all a splendid afternoon, and the new colt is a gem.

Time to feed the M, so no time for Smileys, except those I remember...
Dig

Loved the hat

My 'other half' is making noises like 'when are you cooking Sunday lunch' so I had better depart. I have been trying to leave here for the last half hour without success

Been

Websailor

Hi SD,

Well you must have knocked them sideways with your model headgear. And what is the name of the new colt?

I was thinking of M and what the letter could be abbreviated from
million
marvellous

minute
malicious.
malevolent

so do keep on using the proper word when referring to you other half!!.Thank you for seeing what a wonderful compliment it was every time he used it. Ah! those were the days

Whatnare you cooking for lunch.

I hope it is a aplendid one.

I must go and put the bird into the roasting pan. However I also want to watch the golf. Do you play?

Christiane AR80

Dear WS

That is such a magnificent Perhaps I should also be a

Cook your other half a super lunch - I am sure you will. And do not forget to give him some good roasted peanuts.

Have you ever roasted them? They are marvellous and if you sprinkle salt on the nuts when you are taking the skins(which are pink and turn coral during the gentle roasting period) they are practically as good as cashew nuts, Also should be roasted gently.

Golf this afternoon. Isn't it wonderful what the Australian 53 year old is doing.

Christiane AR80

This is an attempt to recall the message I lost! I wonder where it's gone

Also, the colt is a beautiful bay, his stable name is Jo, but I don't remember his Big Boy's monicker. He's done very well already in the show ring. Tales of his prowess bring back nostalgia for my goats, though they never reached those dizzy heights. Win or lose, we love 'em still, unlike those breeders who get rid of the ones who don't come up to scratch.

Lunch was a scratch affair. We have our main meal in the evening, when the gardening is done (for the moment! It has a touch of the Forth Bridge about it), and, as we were going out in the afternoon, we grabbed a salad, followed by fruit.No or for us.
M is for Master which You might expect
No, we don't watch much sport. I'm quite interested in tennis, but Himself can't stand it, so.. however, we did see Greg Norman yesterday, together with Chris Evert. I'd no idea they were married. She played for the US, and was married to John Lloyd at one time. She used to appear in the commentary box at Wimbledon on occasion, now the 'teenager', Tracy Austen, who came after her does it. This makes me feel older than necessary, it's like your children drawing their pension. My eldest will be 60 in January. I need a lie-down.....
Be well Also!