M’colleague’s husband plays bass trombone in the Hade Edge Brass Band. They were playing today in the Band Stand, Wetherby. We wandered along on the wind of wondering if the ‘come along’ suggestion would come good. It did. Particularly, this bit: … Dave Smith on the Euphonium – Impressive Grandfathers Clock work. The whole band was a treat to watch… Read more →
It’s hard to believe that this girl is 5 today. The years are flying by. Felix is nearly 18, Jaygo is 15 Sophie is 10, Annie is exactly 3 and a half today. We had a great adventure this morning. The Chevin – the ridge above Otley in North Yorkshire no only has an incredible vista to the north, you… Read more →
I’ve just attended Reasons.to. An “Award winning, international 3 day conference with a festival vibe” mostly single track conference set in the wonderful city of Brighton. Although I’m still processing the huge amount of info, I’m already feeling like it’s done me, and my near future exploits, the world of good. I’ve acquired a stack of thinking upgrades from some… Read more →
I’m just back from an (AMAZING) conference. More on that later – I’m writing a longer piece. In summary, mainly designers, coders and artists 3 day thing in Brighton. Anyway, Heart Internet were sponsoring the event and they had a competition ‘Draw your first website’ with the first prize being a Raspberry Pi. I entered – my first website was… Read more →
I’ll never forget the first night I met Eddy. I’d been dating Eirene (his daughter, now my wife and mother of my 4) for a few months when she took me over to Ireland to meet her dad. He sat me down (with the bottle of Irish Whiskey I’d brought him) and drank me under the table. He was testing… Read more →
Day 2 for me, day 3 for the conference (I nearly called it a festival then) and I was fully switched into learning mode. After the afore mentioned ‘Full English’ breakfast (sans black pudding) I used the UX chair lift up mount future, to hit the UX slopes for some black run practice, and some off piste methodology. Abbey Covert… Read more →
Seb Lee-Delisle joked last night, in the day two closing event (where he turned the whole audience into a band using glow-sticks, after we’d all played a game of giant laser drawn flappy bird where we, the crowd, controlled the bird through the medium of clapping) ‘didn’t you all used to be called UI designers?’ I last saw him at… Read more →
I’ve just completed my first ‘proper full week’ – Monday to Friday – at work since mid March. Got a new desk near a big window. Super happy. My professional life feels like it’s going through a bit of a level up which is good. I’ve done a bit of public speaking on stuff I’m passionate about (at Leeds digital… Read more →
It’s my first trip to San Francisco, but I’m not the first adventure club member to visit. Fionn was here 13 years ago (as you can see near the bottom of this DDAC archive). I re created his shirt shot by standing at the bottom of Lombard Street – the 27% gradient street somehow personifies a lot of what San… Read more →
This reminds me of how amazed I was the first time I managed to photo blog to DragonDrop.org without the use of a cable attaching my keyboard to a wall somehow. 13 years ago, I ‘field blogged a photo’ (from an actual field) for the first time using wireless GPRS to connect to the internet via a 9210 communicator and… Read more →
We’re just back from 11 days in Lanzarote. We stayed at Olé Olivina in the town of Puerto Del Carmel. Super nice time was had by all. Here’s our rooms – furthest right ground floor and second in from the right ground floor. Our hotel room spilled out onto one of the many resorts pools which we spent the sunny… Read more →
Happy Paddy’s day to all our Irish or Ireland dwelling friends and relatives! It’s three years since I delivered this beautiful bundle of joy. We’ve had a lovely day of celebration. I cracked on super early working from home and broke the back of what I needed to do in time to go to her nursery around mid day. It’s… Read more →
As I was driving down the A1M this morning, I saw the car in front of me (the silver one, mine is the black one) slowly drift off the road, then it looked like the driver was wrestling with it to get it in a straight line, alas, to no avail. I watched it spin around and smash into the… Read more →
We went for a family outing today ‘up the Chevin’ near Otley. Elsie dog (who must be a babe in dog land) attracted the attentions of a shaggy young pup. A Golden Labradoodle. I don’t know if he just wanted her for her stick or not, but their frolicking was quite a thing to behold on valentines day. Poignant reminders… Read more →
Today lucky little lady Sophie and her amazing godmother Fi, or m8 as she is known to our children, went into town for some quality godmother/goddaughter time. Both arrived home with beautiful painted nails from a proper nail bar in town. They had hot chocolate and even a mooch around the shops, stopping for a browse in Sophie’s favourite ‘Claires… Read more →
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