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

You seem to attract the weirder element of h2 don't you Nick

I find Fairy Dust to be a little sickly sweet for my liking Venus and it should definatly be made a Class A substance

* sniffs at the fairy dust *

* shrugs *

doesn't do a lot for me .. Well, anyway. Easter indeed.. now no funny remarks about painting dinosaur eggs, please? it confuses the hatchlings

Well you would wouldn't you? Because you think you are better than everyone else.

'waits for the other 10 or so personalities to appear'

Mrs A - I KNOW I'm better than you

In that case I feel sorry for both of you.
No-one is better than anyone else.

Did you hear about that 'truant' wittering on about that woman. I hope the rest of the gang don't take it out on the elderly for ever more.

They haven't even been educated about environmental wheelie bins in some parts of the country yet, y'know.

... that's all very well, and reasonable from a point of view, but how would that influence the price of potatoes?

I am not particulary interested in influencing the price of potatoes.
Is that what this conversation is about?

oh.. surely you didn't completely miss all the topics?

quite reasonable right now (price of potatoes that is)

but I'm having trouble finding the large ones for baking

think I should try eBay?

You are all obviously just trying to wind me up so I'll leave and let you get on with it.

Bad luck to you, I'm sorry to say.

We don't seem to be having any problems finding Easter baskets or good sized baking potatoes. Now a fresh batch of turkey or chicken giblets, THERE is a real find. A delicious treat for me, and a base broth for milady to make a seriously wonderful soup.

Of course, if anyone wants some really good spuds, one of our provinces seems to be dedicated to them. Prince Edward Island. Now that my dehydrator is finished with drying out snow to mail to folks in the UK, I could make loads of spud-flakes ... Of course, for the proper taste, you need to rehydrate them with Canuck-water.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS Mrs A finally gets the hint

Wilija's are good baking spuds

You've been around here, Reef. I expect that you know that just because Mrs A has left the room, that means little. Any of her 9 or 10 "extremely close" associates will still be dropping by. Stuff happens ...

So please, enlighten a foreigner ... what or who are these "Wilija" spuds?

It's actually Wilja (my bad) it's a variety of potato that is one of the most versitle http://www.britishpotatoes.co.uk/variety-wilja_new.asp

Very similar to our "Yukon" spuds then, and indeed ideal for a slow-bake on a BBQ. Which reminds me, the weather is cleared enough that I should dig out the barby and fresh it up for the season.

It's Peeing down with rain at the moment so nothing is coming out this weekend

So far, the weather is holding nicely. But Sunday may bring rain or even some sloppy snow-flurries.

We get a couple of days of nice weather and then it goes pear shaped