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

Sorry to be harping on about this, but in a couple of day's I will have been a non-smoker for 2 months...
This is a good thing (oh, OK, I've slipped once or twice..but I've not bought a pack for myself...just nicked other peoples. No comfort to them, but for me!)

Found a great blues bar in Nodnol, on the street that Liberty's (the shop)crosses in it's tudourness. We went on Tuesday night and the place was hooching..but in a good way. The atmosphere was amazing. I don't think I've enjoyed anything since I was still taking the money at the Happening Club door when I was still underage....

Have been on holiday with seven Uni freinds. On a canal narrow-boat on the Kennet and Avon in Wiltshire. Oh the PUBS!!!! The plates were usually as big a steering wheels, and always totally full...

And the Beer....


The first Wiltshire pub we actually went to was a wonderful little blues bar in Bedwyn...I shall be attempting to get out there one weekend, because I didn't manage to make it back for the live gig....something which they apparently have every Saturday...
The Cross Keyes, for this it was, is a small pub that looks nothing so much like a railway tavern frequented only by locals. OK, it's frequented by locals...the first time we went in most obvious was the family playing scrabble in the corner. But on the stereo was Blues...Something that will always make me fall in love with a place..
Then I saw the signs for the live band playing on Saturday and wondered how they were gong to manage both a band and an audience in an L-shaped room as small as that...It was only after talking to them behind the bar that I found out they have a barn attached to the back wall of the pub that has been fitted out for concerts. this barn is my kind of place, with not only it's own bar...so you miss none of the music, but also Vettriano piccies on the wall etc....

I definately going to go again!

Can I live in Wiltshire please? It is luvverly (OH OK, there probably ain't many jobs in Genetics in Wiltshire, and non which would allow me to afford one of the beautiful chocolate-box thatched cottages that were in abundance in their matching chocolate-box villages. But it is nice to dream..no?


The canal boating was great fun too..or at least it was when not persisting down on us from a great hight. The girls decided just to let the boys get on with the steeering...but of course this mean that we ended up doing most of the locks by ourselvs...but it helped us work off the huge meals, and as such was no bad thing!.

Must remember at some point to get the photos developed, but currently my local Boots is closed for refurbishment, so not yet anyhow...


I suppose I had better go do some work now..

Dearest Zantic, my
Thanks for guiding me to your Journal entries. I shall read those and not pester you with questions!! Your canal journey sounds great. It is something that I have always wanted to do, though, as I have said before, I wanted to go to the Canal du Midi which is in Provence and sounds quite magical. Apart from being through wonderful wine country and lots of Roman buildings - both standing and ruined I believe. I see that your dream is Wilstshire. I am sure that you could live there and commute by carpet?
How do I know who your Woking friends are. Perhaps that is in another Journal entry. I had better go back then!!. Fond love and a big AR1