Yeah, I'm not a big fan of humans at the best of times, and sometimes I have to go as far away from all of them as possible.

It's up in the Berwyn mountains, which is north - quite close to Llyn Vyrnwy (a lake not far from Bala).

Yup, that's why I go there :)

Takes about 2 hours' drive to get there, so it's not too bad, plus I like driving the welsh roads because they're really quiet compared to the ones around Birmingham.

If you saw it in a Calvin and Hobbes strip, then it must indeed be true.
Yeah, in terms of games I wish I could be submitting some to NG, it's been a fair while since the last, but all my coding time is taken up on contract work at the moment. I asked if it would be OK to reskin them and put them on NG and my site but the answer unfortunately was 'no, we need to own all rights'. Can't complain too much though, since the rates are pretty good.

No problem on the tuts, although other people such as Inglor wrote a lot more for AS: Main than I did

Yeah, I had a great time. My legs ached the day after though from lugging rocks around to make the dam. Wish I'd taken a pic of the 'lake' but I forgot I had the camera by that stage (and I was drunk).

Heh, no, I do have a laptop (or rather the missus has one that I bought for her), but the battery life on it is like 20 minutes or something so I don't bother taking it out much. Anyway, part of the reason for getting out camping is to stop myself sitting in front of the monitor so much of the time

DON'T DO IT

You mean the game? Can't do that either unfortunately. Kills me to not publish games publically though.

I live in Olton, Solihull side. Not actually a bad area but it's still CITY, and therefore stinks

HAH! I am NOT a brummie. I am here because my gf (ack, wife) is, and we moved up here so that her family could look after the kid(s) occasionally... and because (Hayle,) Cornwall, where we were before didn't even seem to realise that the internet existed, so it was pretty pointless looking for flash-based jobs down there.

I grew up around Evesham, but have travelled & spent time in a lot of different places - primarily west Cornwall, but also Bristol, Lampeter Wales (college & after), Hungerford, Greenwich London, Rhode Island USA, and god knows where else. Of 'places I want to be', Birmingham is the very very bottom of the list - but rents down in Cornwall are like gold dust (and as expensive) at the moment, plus moving with a family is expensive and problematic, so in Birmingham (gritting my teeth) I stay. For the moment.

Sorry for the rant. Just wish I wasn't here. Thus the occasional getaways to Wales etc

I think I've passed through Torquay a couple of times... my eldest brother lives in Teignmouth, so I kind of know the area

plonker.

Why thank you. Fujifilm Finepix 1300, actually been passed onto the eldest now but still perfectly adequate for most purposes.

Hah, cool image, "I'll die before I lose my hat", "OK then dad".

Yeah, I used to canoe a fair bit in my youth, but I don't think I would've got down this stream even with a surf canoe

There were ferns there, quite a lot of them up to above head height in places, but those leaves on the far side are actually the branches of a pine tree. The side I was on was sheltered by Forestry Commission conifers - the far side was a sheep field through the trees

One that doesn't exist yet, but will be a kind of morpg for younger kids

Got it in one - although it's not really a holiday, just an overnight getaway from the stinky city... what does wildery mean?

oic

It's not a well, it's a stream, foo