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

The kids have gone back to school, the wife has gone back to work and I have gone back to alternating between cleaning house and tapping away at the keyboard in the hope of writing something interesting.

A number of H2G2 threads have caught my attention, because they are mostly about subjects I know well - literature being one of them. Oh how easily the old skills come flooding back! Rusty, but there nevertheless. It's a pleasure to bandy words back and forth without any sign of people getting stressed out and storming away from the conversation.

One participant in particular is thoroughly amusing me and he/she probably has no idea that I'm having fun. I should tell them. Possibly.

My brain needed the intellectual workout. Having the kids home means I have seen "Finding Nemo" about a dozen times. I really liked the film to start with. Now if I hear Ellen DeGeneres once more I will either scream, weep or flee. The other thing about having lots of children around you is that your brain starts to work in odd ways. They ask questions that the adult mind simply isn't prepared for. Like "Why is cheese?" Work that one out without saying "because it is".