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

Oh yeah - I think you had it last time I visited. With the special 'radium pistols', and the guy in the kilt with braces?

I've got a couple of skiffy ones you could have, for a start. I'll hoke about and see what else I can offer.

What's your big conference? Is it work related?

exactly.

It's the symposium organised every year by the professor I used to work for. His final one before retirement...

Ah! Then when Y says you should look professional - well, in academia I suspect that means you should dress very...uniquely.

No, for architects, it just means all black.

I'll stick with unique

Most of the ones I know are pretty colourful, as a rule!

Just be stripy and wuschelig and no ill can befall you.

Good plan.

I remember asking you one time if you missed Wupp, and you said it would probably take a bit of time to start missing it - how do you feel now?

Starting to, yes.

Good. Probably easier when you go as a neutral, unattached to any of the maddening institutions you had dealings with!

I'm off out for a bit - I have to hang a couple of doors for someone this evening. See you later!

Busy, busy!

Not as much busy as I could have been - I only ended up putting one door up. The other was distinctly trapezoid. (Needless to say the doorway isn't! )

Were they hand-built?

Yes, but they were pretty old and taken from another building. They seem to have taken a lot of abuse wherever they where stored. When she said they were 'reclaimed' I nearly asked whether she meant from the seabed.

How's your day been?

Maybe the house slid into the sea...

Bit windy today. I was hit by a flying gorse bush, luckily I was in the pickup at the time...

An entire *bush*? And she says it's 'a bit windy'.

Yes, there was quite a loud thump!

You need to get a roof-mounted verger to tump back on such occasions!

Probably the nearest the Popemobile will ever come to Newtownards.

The popemobile would just blow over.

Nah. It's bound to be all weighted like a forklift. Pontiffs shouldn't fly except in the case of a Grade I Miracle.

While I'm buying books, do you have any German comics recommendations?

No, sorry. Haven't read any in ages!