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

In my house it doesn't matter what holiday it is something always breaks and we're stuck for a fortnight while everyone qualified to fix it enjoys the break.

It's been the heating twice already - at an Easter and the Twelfth, it's been the car twice - also at an Easter and the Twelfth. It was the washing machine one Christmas, then the tumble dryer, and on another it was the fridge ..... and so on, such is life at Lunatic Lodge.


This year it's the heating again - we haven't had hot water or heat since Sunday.

Luckily I have an electric fire in the hearth and that's heating the living room. The emersion heater is heating the water and that's the costly options we have in the middle of the credit crunch.

I'm loathe to pay anybody triple time to come out this side of the new year, so I'll just don an extra cardi and snuggle under my blankie until my blood thaws.

I'll let you borrow me Matt

No I wouldn't want to deprive you .... your need is greater than mine.

No, it's okay!


I have Paul the Shawl if it gets chilly


*shoves the Matt over to Ireland*

want my bloody washer! that went bust yesterday

Just what I need ... a cold, wet Matt .... stiff with salt.



Thanks Lil .... merry christmas to you too.

Is that why it's so stiff?


Oh!

*opens the box* .... Washing Powder!!


Thanks, likkul !


*catapults a over the Irish Sea*

Thank you Lil .....


*opens the * ...... Fabric Softener!


Thank you so much


*Rubs it fabric softener into Matt and massages the pile*

*makes no remark about the lilitis*


Oh! The pile is standing up already

I'm telling! 8 posts and no B'El

Bel is


I'm tired myself ... have to walk the pony after panto.

My Lord!


Has that puppy grown?

No .... we're doing Cinderella and we have an actual shetland pony , so I take him for a walk after the shows and let him kick up his heels a bit.

You let him ?

Are you actually riding the ?

He's a shetland .... if I were to sit on him he'd collapse.


We only have him on loan .... I'm not allowed to break him.

*Has a vision of likkul astride the *

just a thought! I can't really tell B'El. co's in a couple of days I'll have forgotten it

.. and in a couple of days, Bel will be away

whose B'El ?

Well I'm rather tired .... so I'll take the Matt to bed


Maybe the would like to lie on it tomorrow night.


Don't worry Lil .... the Matt is safe with me