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

you emailed me?

I've been sleeping.

i am just



normal service has been resumed

taffs drunk posting... I'm falling asleep, but just wrote a really long, long winded sensible post about geeky things... I can sleep safe at night once more, confedent in my belief that everything with the world is as it should be

wrong end for drunk posting, thats next tuesday night!!!

i am now and will be till tuesday morning, stone cold sober

awww... that's always seemed a bit harsh to me...

never fear...
I'll be thinking of you whilst I'm sitting in the beer garden at the beer festavil in my local pub tommorrow afternoon.... they've over 100 beers... yet again how I am expected to drink each... and then find room for the ciders... they're mad...

just got less than 1l of my cider left

home brewed

worked out well and am going to make more

I may as yet think about restarting brewing, once I'e got my house sorted so there is some room to do it! actually think I'll have to go to bed soon... didn't sleep much at all last night in this heat but at least its cooler tonight

the cider was easy

5l of tesco value apple juice about £3, in a demi-john(5l container), sprinkle a teaspoon of yeast, air-lock lid(cover with a cloth) leave for 2 weeks, pour off/syphon withou disturbing the sediment, bit of sugar and bottleeasy

I'm feeling a bit condoned with all the mention of alcohol here.

I was getting more worried we'd lead you astray into a hardcore cheese addiction! I'm useless unless I get my morning fix of Stilton...... and they say soft drugs don't encourage development on to harder drugs.... I started off on craft cheese slices.... before I knew it I was a twenty slice a day man... and then, it just wasn't enough anymore... Before I knew it I was getting through half a pound of mature chedder a day... and still the addiction grew... months went by, and suddenly I found I was non-funcitonal without a fix of brie at least four times a day, as well* as the chedder... then of course things just spiralled out of control....
Before I knew it I was still on the chedder... regular fixes of brie, and I'd feel uncomfetable unless I had an emergency stash of soft goats cheese nearby.... a few years down the line, and I'm getting through six kilograms of Stilton a week.... the chedder just doesn't seem to do it anymore... its Stilton all the way.... I just fear what may be next...

Has to be French winter camembert for me..For some reason it's incredible in winter.

And this year I have some stuff growing in my garden that will be go well with it

Kind of green things..some sort of thing..the three of them are already growing worryingly big.... I've got good neighbours though.

Yes.

I'm growing some really excellent lime green flowered tobacco plants this year.


These triffid things are kind of conceptually related.

I hadn't seen that before, but you're right, very triffid. I wonder if Whyndham was thinking of that - was it in the books? I can't remember what plants they were engineering.

There's some pretty intense plants in that family (the Solanaceae)

Oh I love those tall tobacco plants. My dad hates them though, and this is officially his garden, so I don't think I could get away with sneaking them in

Maybe we should start a new movement: triffid gardening

A totally mentalist reply to serious question. I too love cheese.

Well my grocerys arrived yesterday... including, I think at a rough estimate,2.5 KG of cheese... of various types... but, there was also 11 KG of flour, so I can make bread... to go with the cheese

I just put a bet on..but I don't know if I'm condoning something if I talk about it.