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

I'm vaguely offended by the implicit suggestion that I don't read Trail magazine , even though that's thoroughly unreasonable. Great picture though!

Oh yeah, it's great to see Beeston getting a mention in there, too!

2 new posts, and they're both the same.

Sorry Dolt, you were in China when I wrote that so I didn't think you'd have a copy

Ah, but if you'd gone away for a few weeks you'd have a copy of it waiting for you when you got back, wouldn't you? Stil it's a reasonable excuse so I'll let you off the full force of my ire

Apologies for the doublepost, my internet connection's rather ropey and the javascript thingy that's supposed to prevent doubleposting seems to have stopped working

Well that's alright then

I have a similar problem occasionally, especially when I'm back in Hemel and using the computer that sounds like a lawnmower.

Just caught up with this thread. Great pic, Unc
On the subject of school trips. Over here in Oz they are still going strong. My daughter went on a catamaran trip on Darling Harbour in Sydney. She was absolutely buzzing when she came home. Can't imagine seven year olds doing something that "dangerous"(!!!) in the UK.
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At seven the only school trip I remember going on was just to the town to draw the old shops there are at one end.

We didn't even go that far! We went to Stoneycroft (just across the road from the school) to draw the post office (why?!). Those were the days!

I remember spending some time drawing an iron. Certianly did some pointless things at primary school.

Certainly did. We had one teacher who was obsessed with making us draw random inanimate objects: fruits, coffee pots, old hiking boots (his - eww), dead sunflowers, bits of wood, sheep skulls (again - eww)... And I still can't draw!

I can draw, though I'm not brilliant at it. I very almost did GCSE art but my parents thought geography would be a better option. They were right. Most my lecture notes however are thoroughly doodled on, especially for modules like marine zoology

As a tiny infant, we were taken up and down the village to look for and draw triangles. We ended up on the playing field doing a balancing experiment on the see-saw.


I remember drawing sheep skulls, we'd found them in the Brecon Beacons and by the time we came to draw them the maggots were beginning to wriggle out.

Unc, have you seen Julys Trail yet?

Don't like maggots very much. Odd really, I've no trouble with any other squiggly things but I'm reluctant to pick maggots up.

No, not seen July's issue yet, it's the final of the competition too

I'm not fond of maggots, but it's leaches I'd really rather avoid.

I can't draw, I spent my later years in primary school cleaning out the paint pots/trays during art lessons.

When the Ofsted appeared during an art lesson when I was in year 9, they took one look at my efforts and then scarpered to the front of the room, never again to lurk at the back.


*slides the newly arrived copy of Trail back onto the shelf*

Never had to study leaches in the lab, just identify them in the odd bitt of field work, so I'm largely indifferent to them.



I'm going to have to go get a copy now

Yes, I can't keep quiet forever!!

I'll go find my shoes then

They don't have it in yet

Now I'm going to have that and my results to wait for (which come Friday )

Ohhh, now that's a bit unfair.

*sits back quietly with a smug and *

Tea sounds like a good idea though

*runs to put kettle on*