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

I put a link on my page for the site stats and clicked on it to make sure it worked. On looking at it I was somewhat shocked. I was 5th! With 90 postings in 24 hours! I thought I'd never appear in the top posters' list, but I guess I was wrong... No idea that I was posting that much...

Wow!

For a while, I used to always be around number 4

I was firt this morning. Then I folded up my computer and went shopping/cinema/to friends room to watch film. Was all good.

I have a towel!!!! We went into John Lewis and bought a towel each, while my other friend got all confused about why we were getting excited over towels. Mine's blue and green, hers is blue with fish on. At the till all three of us sudenly started talking about sporks, and the guy that was serving us said 'that wouldn't happen to be a cross between a spoon and a fork would it?', then all four of us randomly started laughing. To add to the randomness we asked him where he'd got his tie from. We spent the rest of the day trying to figer out at the uses for a towel in Nottingham, eating cookies, going to the cinema and then finally settling down in my friend's room with our towels to watch Dogma. What a day.

Wow ! Top day!

I've just written english essay, looked after cousins, had grandparents over, got geography revision guide and did practice test on Coasts (87%!)

Wahey - nice and relaxing then

It was a good day. Well done on the essay/revision/result

Sorry I've not replied before, I was listening to the Shrek album while playing mini boules with a friend. Oh how I love uni

wow! 5th! great going! wow... towel shopping lol now i'm waiting for the time when i'll get to go to uni

Went to Bleaklow today (noth Peaks, Dark Peak area). Walked 9 miles, got covered in peat, was great. Forgot my walking socks though so quite blistered.

Uni is great, it's best to completely ignore everything you've thought you were like up till then though - to go out and do stuff you've never done or thought of doing before (such as archery in my case), as well as develop further what you're already into (walking in my case). You never know until you try. You don't learn without doing.

lol uni sounds so fun!!! maybe i'll take up breaking into MSN's chat server as hobby by then...

can you do that?

nope (but i'd like to) lol

*long hiking yarn alert*

Bleaklow's a fantastic place! I went there last summer with a friend who was doing the Pennine Way. We started in Edale (where else? ). It was a lovely sunny day all the way up, along and down Kinder Scout (it was so warm we even had shorts on and sunblock out, but we felt that the fellow we met wearing little more than a pair of boots, a rucksack and a pair of briefs was taking things a little too far).

We got to Bleaklow, and down came the mist, and the rain, visibility went down to 50 yards or so, and to cap it all there was a strange creepy guy following us just on the edge of our visibile range. we hopped off the path and hid in a grough for a while, but he was still there when we got back. We eventually managed to lose him, and nearly lost ourselves too. Soon after we found our way off Bleakow, the sky cleared, the mist lifted and it was a lovely day again.

I liked Bleaklow.

Sounds lovely

Um... *thinks of walking story*

I've told you the one about the lake havent I?

Er, no.

There's a crash site on Bleaklow - a B52 bomber crashed on the way back from the 2nd world war. There were no servivers and parts of the plane are still there. If anyone's in the area, you go from Hern Clough (092748) you go to Higher Shelf Stones (089974) and from the yellow trig point go on magnetic bearing of 61 degrees for 150-175 meters, and there it is. It's kinda creepy

As for whe I went, there had recently been a fire. As it's peat anyway it was all black on black. It was really odd. As for the weather - it was everything from blazing sunshine to heavy rain.

Surely you mean 097948 (ish) and 089948 for Hern Clough and the trig point at Higher Shelf Stones respectively? 089974 is in the midde of Shining Clough Moss, and 092748 puts you in a little white road near a Limestone quarry a mile and a half out of Buxton...

Dolt (sitting by a shelf of maps and desperately trying to avoid doing w*rk)

Oh, read it wrong, yes 097948 and 089974.

I know the feeling...

Do you want to hear the one about the lake?

Alright then

tea time though, so will have to listen later.

Okallies



Well on a trip to Wales there was a fabled night hike. There were two geography teachers, one latin teacher, a large OS map and about 10 pupils. They were walking in the dark (night hike ) and the two geography teachers started getting a bit panicky up at the front. After a few minutes they stopped, annoucing "we'll have to go back, we can't find the lake".

At which the Latin teacher, looking puzzled said
"What's that big watery thing behind you?"
The lake was there.

Maybe you had to be there.

Went to the lake district once on a family holiday, and then on to the north east coast. My youngest brother sarted running along the beach, and was a few minutes before we noticed he'd run off. My dad chased after him, and caught up with him after about a mile. On asking him where he thought he was going, he said "I want to find the other side of the lake".