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

Well, it has only taken 12 years but yesterday I finally unpacked the last box that moved with us

it was in a smallish cupboard in the kitchen where I seem to just have thrown random things in over th years as well

I found some photos of the kids when they were very young and some photos of me when I was a teenager

A letter to a friend affectionally starts Dear Tart, it describes Hiccups 2nd birthday and has poems in it, not mine, others that I was reading to Hiccup at the time. It seems that I was seeing my friend the following week, I was packing my new tent, although I can't remember camping in October in Wales, but it was a long time ago. Anyway knowing me I didn't get round to posting the letter so just told her news instead

There was a few home made cards in there 'to Mummy' and Hiccup's baby health book

Everything else was rubbish, although I have kept a couple of random adapters 'just in case', couldn't help myself

I came across some smoking paraphernalia which I binned but there was a couple joints worth of weed in an old tin, purely out scientific interest, as in I wonder if weed has a use by date, I smoked it. It must be quite old although not 12 years old, so not very scientific then but it seems to have quite a long shelf life

Sounds like a time capsule! Old weed can get moldy and you don't want to smoke the mold. So I'm told. I found a small container of old weed in a purse that I'd taken on a plane with me! Not knowing I'd left some weed in it!. But no one in security noticed. It was in a contact lens container. I threw it away as I was told the mold would make it nasty.

I have thrown out moldy stuff, begrudgingly it has to be said, so I have always been careful to ensure that it well dried and stored in something airtight

Have to say last night's scientific experiment didn't have any harmful effects

Airport security . I thought I was going to be caught once when there was sudden burst of security outside passport office and they went through my bag and I had some hash in a matchbox but it was bombs they were looking for, obviously bigger ones than could be in hidden in a match box...

Yes, it was hard to throw away the moldy stuff. I was very tempted to try it.

"Have to say last night's scientific experiment didn't have any harmful effects"