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

So the World Anti Doping Agency is run by a bunch of fetishists?

It's always a possibility now, isn't it? It's not the kind of profession that most little boys and girls aspire to, you know.

I guess that's very true

So then, probably not having a "thing" for little plastic cups, ... What has your day brought for you?

A hunt for 4 ply wool that took me to Portsmouth, rain and freezing cold and a cheesy potato bake for tonights tea and War of the Worlds (The musical version not the Tom Cruise version) on DVD

I now have the musical War of the Worlds, a two-CD set. It makes for some very interesting listening. And considering it came across the Big Puddle, I still don't detect any left-handed accent.

It was one of the first CD's I ever bought about 20 years ago

I think the first CD's I bought would only have been about 11 years ago. When I installed an early generation of the things into the home PC. We've only had a player in the home sound system for perhaps 2 years now. Having nearly 500 cassettes, they just didn't seem necessary.

I bought myself a new system complete with CD and blew a months wages doing it when I was about 19 years old

Ummm, when I was 19, I too bought my first sound system. The only debate was whether I should buy the model with the cassette player/recorder or the 8-track player. I settled for cassette ...

Gawds but that was a long time ago, and so much simpler times. In the barracks, drunk nearly nightly, learning the trade ...

you poor old thing you

Sorry, what'd ya say? I think the battery in this ear-thing is faded again.

It's sometimes comical to hear some of the understandings of the world of the youngest ones. One day Rebecca was going to have some girl-friends in for a sleep-over. I asked if they were going to watch some movies, and the answer was 'no'. They were going to watch some DVD's.

Awwwwwwwww bless, I bet you and Milady had a chuckle over that

Oh yes. It seems that the internet has always been in every home, TV's have always had different sound from each speaker and colour pictures ... and it's just OBVIOUS that microwave ovens have been around for-ever. How else could people have cooked their supper?

I get a lot of that too

I once showed my girl the simple technique of making and fitting a cloth diaper. She rolled her eyes and said "yeah Dad, they may have done that in the stone ages, but now we have ..."

And then for a short time, financial constraints, they ran out of disposeables. And HER daughter rolled the eyes, with a "Mom, that CAN'T work !!!"

It's very difficult to find Cloth nappies these days

I don't know if they'd even be found now. I did it the simple way, ... the least expensive flannel bed-sheet I could find, a pair of good scissors, and a handful of safety pins.

You can still get them in specialist baby places I think, but your way sounds good, I wouldn't know how to fold and pin one, I vaguley remember my mum showing me when I was about 4 as my sister was still in nappies then and disposables were still very new and very expensive

We don't have any "speciality babies", ... just normal ones.

Cut a proper square, fold one corner all the way across to make a triangle, long side 'up', and a point 'down'. The long side of the triangle lays across behind the lower back, the two tips brought in from the sides. And the lower point of the triangle comes up between the legs. Voila, three tips to pin at one point, ... about the navel. Simple.