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

Hi el D Hope you are well It looks like it's just you and me keeping old Glum flag flying, sure that one day Bunns will return In the meantime check out this other game I have been playing, a bit Like Cheddar Gorge only it's called Oulton Gorge, just add aword anywhere to build up the sentance, at the moment we seem to be going through a stage where each game is only using one letter staring each word, which is A, see if you can make sense of it all http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F97681?thread=4092816&post=53139563#p53139563 Regards Sim

Hi Sim. Yes, fine thanks. And you?

Been staying up ridiculously late though, playing on this site and indulging one of my other fantasy worlds – the flight sim (!) and a couple of forum sites based on it. I did a little flying for real in the States last year and it got me back on my Flight Sim. The only trouble is that the time just disappears without you noticing.

I'll take a look at the other game you suggest. It sounds like fun.

Keep Glumming!

Regards,
El D

I've played flight sim, once I'm up in the air I'm fine but ask me to land then the problems start, if I do managed to touch down it's usually in the fields 10 miles from the airport.....have done some real flying while taking aerial photography, the pilot sometimes lets me drive home, but for some reason doesn't let me do finals

That all sounds familiar! I've recently taken to flying amphibians – you don't have to be too accurate with the landing! (That's if you can say you 'land' on water). I just downloaded an F22?thread="http://www.fsimcafe.com/forums/index.php" >http://www.fsimcafe.com/forums/index.php

The Screen shots forum gets some good stuff on it.

The trouble is now I'm a MAC user so my old PC is not up to the newer versions of Flight, so I guess I'm grounded, which ain't a bad thing.

Just checked that forum and your Empire screen shots, notice you have landed in a boating lake

Talking about flying amphibians, I wonder where bunnyfrog is these days

I must say that the thought of a flying Bunnyfrog winging its way through the air conjures up some wonderful pictures! We know that he flies of course (with the customary assistance) since it's a heck of a way to walk to China.

The Empire is a great plane to fly. It's slow and pretty unflappable and positively lands itself – just cut the throttle, whack on full flap and flair just before you hit the drink. It's just as well; the other night I was flying in a hum-dinger of a thunder storm and the dear old thing hardly batted an eyelid. Goodness knows what it would have been like in a Cessna!

PS. The boating lake was the Thames but it did give the yachting fraternity something to twitter about!

el D

I do wonder if we really have a life outside our cyberworld, I have to use the MAC each day for post-production for all the images I shoot, H2G2 is just my bit of down time as a light relief from the tedium of it all, GLUM has always been a good refuge but the gang sem to have negelected it of late, love the Oulton Gorge posting though and of course the various M C games......enjoy

Maybe it's the world outside of the cyberspace that's the illusion! I try to look in each day and have my two-penn'th. Sometimes it's fitted in between web work for the couple of customers I've kept on after really being retired but mostly it's just for the fun of it in its own right.

It's certainly good to get in on some of these new games and variants. Keeps both the sense of humour and the little grey cells going.

does the grey cells relate to the amount of grey hairs, in which case I have a lot, so your retire...have thought about it but I see before me The Long Dark Tea-Time of The Soul as I work forever, as you may know, us photographers don't grow old, just go slightly soft-focused Like your Zulu move by the way There is a more traditional Cheddar Gorge game also http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F97681?thread=1085365&latest=1

Not sure if the grey hairs/grey cells thing is a direct relationship or an inverse one. I think it may depend what sort of day you're having!

I dropped out of a professional career many years ago – decided that life's too short to spend it dong something that is slowly driving you nuts! Bought a small-holding in Lincolnshire – goats, ducks, chickens, sheep, calves, the whole good-life bit. Had that for about ten years then decided to sell up and go and see what the rest of the world was doing. Hence the cottage in rural Dorset and travels during the last dozen or so years to S. America, Africa, India, Thailand and Cambodia as well as Europe and the USA.

Wife is doing a research PhD and that will quite likely take us to Bangladesh and the Philippines among other places in the next few years.

Still have to earn a bit of course so occasional web-design work and some rental properties keeps things ticking over mostly.

I'll take a look at the traditional Cheddar Gorge too. (I was there a few weeks ago.)

web design, now thats a real art, so many people get it wrong.....perhaps I have but I have tried to have a site that is simple and fast, if you contact me on my email I'll let you know the link [email protected]

Your a well travelled chap, not done much travel myself, if I go to Wales I get my passport out LOL

My wife is a gardener, in fact she has recently passed her RHS certificate, does a few gardening jobs then spends her earnings on her own garden, which is really nice.

My wife's really the gardener in our family too, though I potter a bit and largely do as I'm told out there!

Most of the long-haul travel has been research trips. We did voluntary work for a children's charity – researching, writing and producing training materials for people working with kids at risk, mostly in developing countries. We stayed with projects working with street kids or AIDS orphans among others and learned from them about the problems and pitfalls and how they overcame them. We then turned their experience into best-practice handbooks and made them available worldwide. The last trip was to Zimbabwe. We travelled all over the country, mostly in the back of a pick-up truck, to remote bush villages where local volunteers were caring for kids orphaned by AIDS and often living in a hut by themselves. It's a tough life they lead!

Well that was a bit of a set-to on Cheddar Gorge! Never mind. Normal service has been resumed. I guess you will have missed this by the time I got around to sending. Hope you have/had a good few days away.
Les