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

No - I have not spent a day on a practice circuit trying to drive my car as fast as possible backwards or doing precision manoeuvring only looking in the wing mirrors. Though it could a) be good fun; b) very handy having those skills polished up somewhat...

Neither have I started the day having a good dinner, spooling backwards until a few minutes ago, when I would presumably have had a nice breakfast. Friends of mine recently went to a party like that - start with nightcaps and late night snacks and press the reverse button until people get the apéritif just before leaving. According to the rumours, not many managed to hold their own for that long. When you start with a decent number of solid drinks before dinner - the ones usually downed well into the night - things go downhill very fast. Apparently it was quite a hoot, though

No, I have been walking backwards.

Simply because my in-laws have started the process of moving house - from no 13 on the street to (something like) no 4. So it's not long - but nevertheless one brother-in-law and m'self have moved the four or five first trailer-loads of bigger furniture out from one house, driven the few hundred yards to the other and into the new one.

And either I was better at walking backwards holding one end of a bureau or a bookcase than my brother-in-law - or he was more adept at grabbing the end that allows you to walk forwards... Your guess is as good as mine...

We left it before we came all the way to the orang-utan stage - arm-length wise, that is (no other parallels, please!). After all, we all meet up there tomorrow again - with wives and kids this time - for the kids it'll be mostly a case of letting them say their goodbyes to what has been their grandparents' place for all the time they've known.

I think I'll try to be a little forward tomorrow

A good piece to read indeed. And also makes me to think about the advantages of nice portable household (which I used to have until I moved in here).

Well - I cannot call our household portable...

But then, we don't plan to move - at all

I would love to move every now and then. But I like this house too. Especially now that I have plumbing in the house.
I have moved 12 times in my life, twice in the same building and once on the same street (700 metres though). I'd call it a lifestyle already.

I managed to get through yesterday without walking backwards at all

But only by spending the day attaching things to walls - something like 4 bookcases and a towel-dryer thingy...