When it comes to relationships, your resident weirdo is not very accustomed to them. But from last august; just before amecon I had the luck and fortune to be asked out by the incredibly warm and cuddly Tim *see picture, because he probably wouldn’t like me posting a photo.

All is well, I went to see his family. For some reason he agreed to coming round our house for the Christmas holidays. So it was pretty cool that for once I would get to spend Valentine’s Day with someone (Catherine always getting attention from people, not forgetting poor Ben)

The day began in an extremely exciting fashion as any other does, doing all the dishes that had mounted up during the start of the week, and having to go down to the shops to pick up some eggs so the day had already started amazingly, then I pretty much sat at my computer for about 3 hours until Tim arrived and surprised me with a most beautifully huge rose accompanied none other than with pussy willow (the most amazing plant in the world.)

Along with my awesome new best friend, who is very squidgy; a definite plus, and the awesomely cool 25th anniversary blade runner OST. So all-in-all making him amazing boyfriend of all time, and me crap because I couldn’t think of anything that I could get him

After hanging around for a little bit we set out for the Red Lion for tea; unfortunately the weather had turned Wednesday night, and it was bloody freezing, and then attack of the crazy dog at someone’s window wasn’t very helpful either.

The Red Lion was nice and cosy and the tea light at the table gave off a lovely burning-candle-type-smell, plus also proved almost hypnotic to look at until I realised just how bright the flame was, to have it burnt into my vision.

Had an awesome starter of bread crumbed camembert (much nicer than my own attempts at bread crumbing cheese!) with apricot jam melted for a sauce, best -omg- thing I've ever had! Especially with some buttered bread!

My main course was very interesting, an aubergine gateau, which had a tad too much feta cheese but was damn yummy, especially as the skin of the aubergine had crisped up and had turned crunchy! yumm!

After that went down -which was hard to do as there was so much of it that I couldn’t actually finish, something that does not happen often to someone like me!- we shared a real nice Lemon torte, which admittedly did go well with poured cream -even though squirty cream owns all cream types!-

Which made for a very amazingly nice dinner, the main conversation being very video-game based, as well as Tim's hopes for stereotype wars (and a dream for zombie apocalypse) which I won’t mention, but OMG it has to be done!!!

Returning home to an even colder night we were to watch a film -as I had opted out of the cinema- and I popped in Brazil, which maybe I shouldn’t have done as it is a fairly long film, but one of my favourites.. So, sorry if you didn't enjoy it as much as I did

So if you are reading this, I will remember it, and it was a really lovely day, thanks Tim *sends much love your way*

I am a bad bad, very bad person! I have owned the Longest Journey for at least 4 years, maybe longer, and to tell the truth somehow I have always told myself I've never had the time to really play it, I've tried many times in the past years, installing it, getting somewhere in the first chapter and never really exploring enough to get any further.

If you want excuses the game seemed too serious, or maybe it was the setting was the usual bright colourful happy I'm used to in adventure games, that and my game always used to crash for some reason.

So I decided to give myself the time of day to play it, and it's took me maybe a week maybe less to play through it in my spare time.. and I'm just ashamed that I hadn't played it further.

Of course, being an adventure game there were times that I needed a little helping hand, and I literally praise the ground that the uhs-hints system was built upon, the amount of times that thing has helped me with adventure games without spoiling anything for me is great. But I did play as much as possible trying to work things out by myself, but its like Freecell, every-now-and-again you need a bit of a push in the right direction if you aren't thinking straight.

The game is a absolute jem, and one of the first engaging almost-feminist games that began a nice slow flow from similar-like minded companies in Europe.

It was funny, it was sad, it had an amazing female character (who I hear was not so likeable in Dreamfall) it told an amazing story, and I know why Carlos loves it so much!

It creates an imaginative world full of diverse creatures, each with their very own characters and mannerisms, its a marvel of game design and involved me in it's story far more than any other games I have played of recent

It referenced Brazil, and I'm sorry, but when a game does that, well it wins prizes ^__^

Also, the brain-man of the game, Ragnar Tornquist, has a fairly interesting blog here

Having finished the game I am now raring to play Dreamfall, and I bid you adiou