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

As I feared, the judges were sniffy about my entry to the Valentine competition. They said it wasn't to do with 'better' and gave me a poor set of marks. This leaves me dangerously close to the relegation zone. Aaargh!

The next challenge asked for a piece for either the AWW or PR, on any subject. It had to be prose and it carried the peculiar requirement: 'The last word of every sentence must contain a double letter.'

I suppose I should have spent a while thinking and planning something that would impress the judges. Instead I thought "I shouldn't take this competition so seriously. I'm not going to spend ages over it."

I wasn't sure how hard it would be to write sentences ending with double letter words anyway. So I dashed off a short piece: 'Brighton Impressions', about my favourite town. It didn't prove too hard, but I was sure that this piece wouldn't do for the competition. It wasn't particularly stylish or interesting. And there are lots of pieces about Brighton on hootoo, although none of them have made it to the Edited Guide. What I needed was something more original.

So I thought I'd write a short article about Agen Prunes. Yes, prunes!
I haven't really got a prune obsession, it's more that I like the part of France they come from. So I set about doing my research, using the 'Pruneaux d'Agen' website. There is an English version, but the French is fuller.

I ended up with what I hope is a reasonable short article. At least I could find no existing articles on prunes or even plums on hootoo. It's not particularly stylish, though I did manage to include one double letter French word.