The h2g2 Post: 04.06.18

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Posted: 4^th June 2018

June is Busting Out

Scottish Landscape in Spring by Paigetheoracle

Spring in Scotland by Paigetheoracle

What a year! Less than a month ago, it was snowing outside the Post Office. Last Monday, we turned on the a/c in the car, drove out to the farm, and jumped into the pool, which was freshly filled with local spring water. Today it is 30°C, and the Post menagerie are complaining about the heat. What's the weather like where you are? We need reports, preferably pictorial. We have a lot of planet to keep tabs on.

Speaking of keeping tabs: you've all ordered your personal copies of Twice-42: Wit and Wisdom from a Mostly Harmless Planet, right? If not, get to it! How else will h2g2 become the galaxy-renowned source for information on Life, the Universe, and Everything that it's meant to be? Speaking of which, US readers need to remember to vote early and often over at PBS.
Cat Wrestlemania

See that photo? I didn't even have to move. That's what's going on under the Editorial desk. You see, Molly the Editorial Assistant Kitty has woken up to the fact that she's got what she's always wanted, all her life, an assistant of her own that doubles as a sparring partner. It's a little one-sided at the moment, but TJ is feisty, and we've taken a look at his feet. He's going to be a large tomcat, and Molly will get quite a surprise one of these days.

On to this issue, which is absolutely chock-a-block with high-quality Stuff. We'll give you a quick rundown:

Nature at its most incredible: Willem's flufftailed birds. Paigetheoracle's Scottish gorse and massive rhododendron. (I've been fussing at him for making me remember how to spell 'rhododendron'.) The Hoggetts' amazing giant eggs, our gratuitous clickbait of the week. That's not forced perspective, like those giant hogs and such you see on the cheap websites. Those chickens are really doing this. The ducks won't shut up about it.
Intellectual Stuff like quizzes and high-class British cinema and bad writing advice and ancient art and arcane humour. You know you like it, just don't tell the lads at the pub.
History: Old history, like the US Civil War in a diary. Recent history, like the Towel Day Roundup. You people rocked those towels.

More accessible humour (thank Paigetheoracle and others).
Beautiful pics from all over (thank the photographers). bobstafford shows you how to take a stunning time exposure.
Evil and not-so-evil clowns.
Many, many cats. We have kittens, and are not afraid to use them.

You know you're going to enjoy this issue, so why wait? Dig in! Read, leave comments, plan to send Stuff. Remember to re-read your journals for inspiration and excerpts for the Create Challenge this month.

Enjoy what you're doing, wherever you are. Have a wonderful week, my friends!

TJ after all this exercise.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

AMAZING THINGS FOUND IN NATURE
Colours of Wildlife: Flufftail	Scotland Spring: From Bad to Gorse
Clickbait Central: Giant Eggs!	h2g2 Gardener: Rhododendrons!
INTELLECTUAL STUFF
24 Lies a Second No sex please, they're British.	Post Quiz Dear Diary.
Picture Quiz Dog v Dragon.	Art History 101 Ancient insomnia.
*AMAZING THINGS NOT* FOUND IN NATURE**
Time Exposure	Time Travel: Proof!
*Okay, Next* to Nature**	Armchair Generals
SOME MORE EXCITING STUFF!
Gheorgheniplex First in Flight (again).	Caption Challenge Me-Ow!
Towel Day 2018 roundup.	Video Clown mania.
WRITE RIGHT (NOW)
June Create	Obligatory Cat Photo
Writing Right with Dmitri Journal Reading 101.	Join the Q Signs of Spring II.
FEEDBACK, SUBMISSIONS AND DISCUSSION
Email the Post Team For submissions and editorial feedback	The Post Readers' Forum Chat about The Post with other readers and the Team