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

ok, this weekend, (sat, sun and mon) I went on my silver duke of edingburgh practice expedition in the new forest. on satarday morning at 8 o'clock, we arrived at school with our rucksacks and got on the (new!) minibus. we drove down to the new forest. On the first day, we walked about 15k, getting a bit lost near both the beginning (when I fell over a bush) and the end through the moorland! we met our leader margeret at a few places along our route. we got to the site where we were camping, which was a wild clearing at the edge of the wood. we set up the tents and began to cook just as it was getting dark. we had spaghetti, and dropped it on the floor twice! katherine dropped most of it the first time when she tried to drain it, then me and amelia dropped a bit again when we tried to pass the pan to each other. also, after all that, when hannah was eating hers, she dropped it! so hers was dropped three times! that night was very cold, so much so that the water in my bottle in my bag in the porch of our tent froze! there was ice on the inside of the porch as well!

we got off earlyer than the other group in the morning, and went to the loos to fill up our water bottles. we tried to pass along the path we were meant to go along, but there was a stream that we couldnt get across, and some of the grass was all wobbly and floating, so we had to go back to the path next to the road that we had come along to go across on that bridge. The walk went pretty smoothly from then, through patches of wood, moor, bog and scrubland. after lunch (oatcakes, cheese and really nice and sticky toffee spread) we came to a rather boggy part of a wood. we struggled through/round that and came out into a long, thin clearing. this was quite obvious on the map (so we thought) so we turned right, or south-west. a while going along that, having not seen the road we were supposed to meet, we checked what direction we were supposed to be going against the compass and the map, and we found that we were supposed to be going north-east! so we turned round and went back the way we came past the 'path' where we got into the clearing. at the end of the clearing, we found that we were in the wrong place anyway and had to walk down the road a bit untill we were at the place where it said on the map that we were supposed to be camping. margerets car was there which was a relief, seeing as we hadnt seen her all day, but she wasnt and neither was anyone else. we made sure we were in the right placeand scouted round a bit to find her, which we didnt. when she finally turned up (emerging from the path we should have come down) she said that she was getting a bit worried because she was waiting at several points on our route where we didnt turn up) well mr robinson spoke to us about that, and we did go wrong but we did the wrong thing when we did go wrong! that night, I got rid of practically all the food I was carrying for dinner. The other group got in just after dark, and we made them hot drinks. I also discoverd that I had done an absolutely utterly idiotic thing as I am a compleate ninny. I had put a banana in my survival rations!!! it had compleatly sqished! anyway, that night was a bit warmer than the night before, it didnt freeze, and I had more sleep than non-sleep.

this morning, we got off about 45 mins early, setting aside some time for bog-walking. the first bit of bog was very boggy, and just after we had crossed in a very soggy way, we saw margeret crossing the bridge!!!! yes, there was a bridge about 100 metres further down the path!!!! anyway, we carried on a bit the soggier and insulted all the other tiny bogs that we saw because they werent proper bogs! we wound on again, not getting too lost. we went well till the last leg or so when we all got a bit tired and achey it wasnt helping that the last leg was about three times the size it was meant to be! the last k or so, was very up-and-down, but I t was a relief when we saw the minibus sitting at the top of the hill! I got out the rest of my cereal bars and the last of my kendal mint cake to eat and we went to the place where the other group were meant to end and had lunch there. after about half-an-hour or so, mr robinson got a phonecall from the other group saying that they were hemmed in by marsh and had been going around in circles for 2 hours! we went to collect themin the bus, them went to beaulieu (pronounced Be-you-Lee) to get icecream , I had a mint choc chip and vannilla one with a white choclate thingy-that-looked-a-bit-like-a-chinese-man on the top!we then got in the bus and came back to school, getting there at about 3.20 which was earlier than we planned. I had told dad to pick me up at 4 so I was prepared to have a bit of a wait. people gradually got taken home untill I was the last one! dad eventually came at about 25 past 4 and we went home via sainsbury's

we have a hard life

oh, woe... woe is us! woe woe woe!

hands Kess 42 large cushion to procrastinate on

better wear this A1021654

how did you know I was procrastinating!?!?!

awh thanking you! a very lovely and wonderful towel coat!

all smart persons do that....

yes, they do! as well as talking to themselves!

Kess, Smart?
I am Sorry

no don't go insulting Pheloxi!

awww...she is smart and cute to me

b.t.w I walked in the New Forest too...I also went to that train thingy!
one time we had picnic overlooking I think Ringwood

ok she is smart

no!!! im not smart, but pheloxi is and I didnt want it to imply that he wasnt....

was it wet?


what train thingy???

no actualy it was one of the first spring days and another time it was sunny, but cold....

yes
it wasn't raining but the bogs were wet, and it was cold
you ARE more intelligent then me

I can not remember it was atleast 2 yrs ago....

I am as smart as people think I am. like I always say
"I am a two legged waterbag full of usable and useless knowlegde."

at least you have knowledge

very cold on the first night!

I have a distinct feeling that we write the same stuff, but they can just read mine a fraction better!

and in maths, do you understand most things in your group? I dont, even in set 4!

nope, not a word of it

there's words???? oops! I wondered what I had been missing!

the words are between the numbers and the punctuation