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

But I seem to remember now that in your drawing, the additional narrow counter in front of the chimney wasn't there... that might make everything a bit more crowded now.

Don't worry, it'll be fine In my drawing, the other counter came out further.

how many tables and chairs do you need room for, Y?

Depends on how many hootooers are planning to show up for the kitchen-warming party... last thing I heard, King Bomba was seriously considering a trip to view my famous compost heap after all...

I wouldn't say "seriously considering" really - idly ruminating perhaps.

I'd hate to think I was a factor in buying extra chairs, though - I often eat standing up anyway.

Plus the best parties happen in the kitchen, so you need room for those and a have you built in the soundsystem and ball?

Bit low for the ball!

But it should be a party-worthy kitchen. Complete with dishwasher, all the best parties need one

As long as you let him out of his little wooden cage occasionally for a drink and a nibble.

ah, i remember the good old golden days when we had neither dishwasher nor teevee, but gathered round ye olde washing machine whenever mom washed coloured stuff

we'd share a pipe and see those colours going round and round

it was magnificent

You're joking - but when the first microwave oven came into our family, everyone had to go to our grandmother's house to stare at a plate of baked beans going round in a circle.

Tee hee, we had a top-loading washing machine, so whenever we were visiting my mother's house, Mala and her younger sister would fetch their special little chairs, sit in front of the washing machine and watch in fascination until the cycle was over...

i remember helping my granny wringing the wet clothes from her old top-loader. afterwards we shared her homemade candy made of oatmeal and sugar fried in margarine and homemade fizzy lemonade - and i had to promise never to tell my mom

Washing machines - such luxury!

I remember helping my Nan pulling a small carriage down to the lake were a fire was set under a large cauldron where the clothes were washed and then rinsed in the very cold lake

- and that was not more than 20 - 25 years ago!

Cauldron - luxury!! All we had was a cardboard box.....

No, wait a minute

Nan was under the delusion that washing machines didn't wash properly so she refused to use the one Gramps inherited from his brother. So for a couple of years Gramps washed his clothes in the washing machine, and Nan hers (and the rest of the laundry) down by the lake.

i'm still waiting for my granny to show up here

will there be any more pictures of the kitchen? I know you've been busy, but i'd love to see the finished project.

so would i, but we can wait. lots to do everywhere

Pictures will come. But right now, the kitchen is not photographable - every surface is covered in things we still have to find a place for.

And most of the drawers we assumed were empty turn out, on closer inspection, to contain a cat. The *same* cat in every one!