International RV Jolly 11-13 May 07 + Pix Thread

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Wheee! - Home now! - Lovely to see peoples again!



Highly enchuffened with the ZZAP cover art I won in the raffle. - Goes great with Bogs fabby Sanxion artwork (same size prints too!).

Nice.

Oxford's a fucking nightmare to park in. Also, the Athena guest house couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.

Thats a coincidence, the C64 Artwork raffle for the Richard Joseph Charity, was won with the number 64. good pick there lans

Fantastic weekend, got back at about 4, did a slideshow for the missues (she wanted to see the photos!!!!) on the wii, just getting chance to post. will add some photo's shortly, need to upload to flickr.

Kudos to Mr Rayson for organising the event and looking forward to seeing you all again in February. Was great seeing those who I have met before and meeting those I have not.

Having a problem remembering the name of the guy who played me at excite truck this afternoon, good game (same goes to all those who I had a game with at something or other!!!!!) all tho they were famous last words, "I have not been beaten at this"

May RV be with you!!!!! Always.

Ta - I hadn't realised it's Oli Frey who did both the Zzap cover AND the Sanxion loading screen.

I think I just got a new favourite artist!

Once again, great weekend and cheers to the staff at the Port Mahon pub for catering with a bunch of fluffy curry lovin' nutters for the weekend, Markie & the rest of the RV team and you fluffy fuckers for being there.

I hugX0r j00 @ll!!1!

[newtechlover]

im home now!, and looking rather drunk in some picture lol had a great time and cant wait til feb hope to see all your guess there.....

[Little Dragon]

And if anyone can put names to faces for the photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikclayton/tags/unknown/ please pass them on.

The second one with Bog and someone is me - I'm Markie's wife Sarah. I could go through lots of others but I thought that was one the most important!!

When Markie comes back to the land of the living I'll see if he'll post some of Rebekah's best shots of the day - she loved having so many people to take photos of (heads not so important!!). She had a great time this afternoon and slept on the way back home clutching her tv plug in games console (thanks to Oxo). She wanted to plug it in straight away and had a go at a few games. I wonder where she gets that from?

It was lovely to catch up with some regular RV'ers and meet some news ones too.

Sarah

[renegade_si]

Ive been home for a good few hours now, and am about zonked. 2 nights of 4am finishes....Im getting too old for this shit!

Good photo of me doing the wii bowling back a couple of pages!

Bog, thank God that theres loads of photos of you being mad, otherwise my missus would never believe that you ripped my boxers giving me that wedgie!!!



thanks a lot to everyone - most of whom I haven't met before (or at least dont remember from the BIT lives in the past), and little Rebekah was lovely.....

Must go to bed soon....yawn....

If anyone finds a Jabra bluetooth headset then itll be mine then. I wasn't going to go scrabbling on the floor of the Nanford this morning....ugh.

[Wanderer]

Bog, thank God that theres loads of photos of you being mad, otherwise my missus would never believe that you ripped my boxers giving me that wedgie

the joy of RV

[Peltazoid]

Here are some photos from friday.

The Nanford, behind one of the beds


Trolley, with a fresh pint!


Cubism


Exobuzz, looks like he has had enough at 2:30pm on friday


One of the worst games on mame?


WiredWorm on Guitar Hero.


PyschoRob and his projekta, Some Wii action can commence!!


Guess the game!!!


Drunk Giraffe!


Sutty worse for wear!!!


Trolley'd!!!!!

[Wanderer]

Here are some photos from friday.

The Nanford, behind one of the beds
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/4966 ... 1c.jpg?v=0

Trolley, with a fresh pint!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/4966 ... db.jpg?v=0

Cubism
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/4966 ... c0.jpg?v=0

Exobuzz, looks like he has had enough at 2:30pm on friday
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/4966 ... 9c.jpg?v=0

One of the worst games on mame?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/4966 ... a8.jpg?v=0

WiredWorm on Guitar Hero.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/4966 ... 96.jpg?v=0

PyschoRob and his projekta, Some Wii action can commence!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/220/4966 ... c5.jpg?v=0

Guess the game!!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/4966 ... a2.jpg?v=0

Drunk Giraffe!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/4966 ... 2b.jpg?v=0

Sutty worse for wear!!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/4966 ... be.jpg?v=0

Trolley'd!!!!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/207/4966 ... 4a.jpg?v=0

just out of curiosity ... what on earth made you get on the floor in the Nanford to take a photo ......

[Peltazoid]

just out of curiosity ... what on earth made you get on the floor in the Nanford to take a photo ......

The power of a zoom lens I was stood up poking the camera behind the bed!

I would not get on the floor in the nanford!!!

[oxo]

home again!

I would just like to say what an awesome time I had, you are all
a great bunch

I honestly haven't laughed so much in ages!! It was great to see the
faces and characters behind the avatars and have so much fun at
the same time.

However I must give a special mention to Bane who shocked me
today by putting a LOAD of brown sauce on his Sunday roast!!??
But you are a great guy non-the-less!

Thanks Markie for organising such a great event and making an
RV Virgin feel very welcome, you are a star.

And it was great to meet the legends who are Jeff and Giles who
both had me in stitches last night! Cheers for letting me play the
Giraffe

[Markie]

OXO, cheers for the RV trainer! Awesome, just awesome!

releated here http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=64555

[Harlequin]

Ta - I hadn't realised it's Oli Frey who did both the Zzap cover AND the Sanxion loading screen.
I think I just got a new favourite artist!

I have a sizable digital collection of Frey comics and other artwork, almost all of which is unsuitable for heterosexuals.

Much of this work can be seen in Yahoo! groups such as this one.

H. (almost regretting having to give away his Newsfield covers)

[psychorob]

Got home a little while ago just started unpacking some kit and upload some more photos for ya:
http://psychorob.smugmug.com/gallery/2841887

All 3 galleries of each day can be found here:
http://psychorob.smugmug.com/Events/320152

and just though i'd animate these snaps of leekfiend for your amusement



Cheers
Rob

[Vintage matt]

Got home a little while ago just started unpacking some kit and upload some more photos for ya:
http://psychorob.smugmug.com/gallery/2841887

All 3 galleries of each day can be found here:
http://psychorob.smugmug.com/Events/320152

and just though i'd animate these snaps of leekfiend for your amusement



Cheers
Rob

Your Mum

[gilesgoat]

Got back too. Drove most of the way back in the rain following a red Vauxhall about 2 inches from it's bumper without my headlights on

Just to add my own thanks to everyone who got this gig together and schlepped kit from the four corners of the country.

What was nice about this RV was that it was much more social, and far less geeky - and IMO this made the gaming all the better.

It's a given that there's good gaming, good drinking and good eating at RV nowadays - thanks to all the hard work that goes into preparing it.

But it's the little things that really make it. My own high point was winning the Space Giraffe high score compo - I still maintain I won not because I scored the most, but because I died the least. And then the icing on the cake was being presented with a lovely little Merino glass giraffe from Jeff and Giles.



A lovely gesture - and one that put a big shit-eating grin on my face. Oh, and Space Giraffe is a blast by the way. You'll love it. Must name the giraffe... (That's some of Butterbeans wool in the background - it was keeoping the Giraffe all snuggly and safe in his box...)

So cheers to everyone who helped me enjoy the weekend - in no particular order
Ladybird and Paul - Nurse and father of the patient
Amy - Have guitar, will bounce (looking forward to more guitar wankery next time)
Illogikill - Looking forward to Guilfest
Psychorob - Mad skillz for setting up the big screen + poratables for 4 Swords made large
Vintage_Matt & Leekfiend - or should that be Vintage[space]Matt and dodgydildo?
WiredWorm & Trolley - great to see you both again. Will try to do better at staying in touch...
Jeff and Giles - for the obvious reason...
Markie & Sarah (& Rebeckah, of course) - just thanks
And everyone else who I chatted to/played with...

Really enjoyed this year. Looking forward to the next time...

Not Merino ... MURANO !

MURANO is the very famous island in the Venice lagoon for the schools
and furnaces of handmade glass blowing

[gribbles]

I just knew I should have googled it before trying to spell it

Ah well - despite my poor spelling, it is nonetheless very much appreciated and taking pride of place in our display cabinte at home.