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Been up for a day in the Dales. I wrote the next bit earlier, but had no
signal to send it. "Felix, Jay and I are sitting on the banks of a little
fishing hole in Kilnsey with Dave, Snoozy, Seaster and Jamie. having the
**** ripped out of me for geeking out. Sun is shining, fish are jumping."
Just outside Grassington now, about to drive back to Harrogate. The wee
men in the back should be fast asleep by then ;)
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| ( 1:13 PM ) Matt |
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Fantastic. As you can see from the entry below, I have managed to get blog
via email working. There's another dynamic. I have just got a nokia
comunicator 9210, so I can email a blog in from anywhere. Sunday lunch at
mums now :)
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| ( 12:17 PM ) Matt |
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another test.
DragonDrop.org
+ watchcam adventures
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| ( 9:10 AM ) Matt |
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What a fantastic Birthday I had ! Thanks to everyone - especially those who got me prezzys, cards or food !
New slippers, Set of Tablas, single malt, a sheep, espresso pot, chocolate, 20 Marlboro - what a cool list :o)
Yesterday was great at work. I was met my mum, Eirene and the kids and we went to the local cafe - Simon Giles and a few others were there as well.. Eirene embarrassed me by getting the cafe owners to bring out a cake, with sparklers in ! (I was sure the fire detectors were going to go off!). Wore my slippers round work for most of the afternoon. Got home, and went to the orchid for a v.nice meal, followed by a couple of pints of TT Landlord at the Bell Inn. Superb. They can't get much better than that.
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| ( 10:37 PM ) Matt |
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"Circus"
Latest watchcam collection now online. Circus
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| ( 8:35 PM ) Matt |
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And another thing...
I saw the sea today. On the A19, on the way up to Newcastle. Steely flat and calm. And big. It's an event for me to see the sea you see.
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| ( 6:22 PM ) Matt |
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What a crazy few days - it's been a fantastic weekend. Friday night - stayed in, had a quite one. Saturday, we went to Leeds and Eirene and the kids allowed me to choose my Birthday present (tomorrow!) from one of my favorite shops in the whole world knock on wood. Always liked the the idea of and sound of Tablas. I had a go on a friends set of tablas at womad, and thought... yea - I could get into this. It's a very long journey, and a lot to learn, but that's part of the enjoyment - the learning. I've got quite a healthy collection of percussive instruments now -= tablas, congas, bongo's and a few other bits and bobs. So - Saturday, thru till today has featured quite a lot of tabla talcum powder action, interrupted by cabbage on Saturday night - always a top time. Full on club, "leave your ego at the door" kind of place, great time. Got in around 05:00 (well - it was my prior to Birthday weekend!) and nattered for a few hours, to be joined by Felix and Jaygo at around 07:30 Sunday morning. Got some sleep later on in the morning, and woke up surprisingly feeling fine at about 13:00 Sunday afternoon. So then, we went to the Chinese State Circus ! - this was a fantastic spectacle, and a 2000 year old tradition. An amazingly polished routine of everything from kung fu, to Chinese Dragons, to spinning plates, acrobatics and bungee trapeze. The colour and moment were superb - there were people doing the most amazing things - Sheffield is the next venue - I can highly recommend it.
Anyway - it's Tuesday night now, and I'm going home for a pre birthday beer or 2.
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| ( 4:49 PM ) Matt |
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A new thingy - a 'GuestMap'. jostling for space already in the North of England - give it a click, and stick your pin on the map !
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| ( 3:49 PM ) Matt |
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Camborg seems to be down, testing site update. (please ignore this dull collection of words)
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| ( 9:43 PM ) Matt |
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"North Berwick"
Latest watchcam colection now online. North Berwick 2002
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| ( 8:21 PM ) Matt |
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It's been non stop. Sleeping is cheating.
Friday night, I had a gig. A private party, to someone with a shed load of cash. (for those who don't know, I occasionally play a bit of congas and bongos alongside DJ's.) Had a massive PA set up on a marquee. great lights, and fully supported by engineer (Al) and desk op (Blake), and I was in turn, supporting the maestro Paul Q on the decks. Got loads of nice free scran and beer early doors from canopy offering waitresses and a shooter boy. It was a birthday party, and I think one of the gifts for birthday girl was a bunny boy half naked bloke with a holster carrying 2 bottles of tequila and a load of shooter glasses round him, topped off with bunny ears and bunny tail and that's about it. got a bit messy, got in at about 5:00 am.
Saturday morning, 9:00am onwards we set off for North Berwick (pics here soon). Broke down in Humbrum, but not very badly - fantastic service form the good old AA breakdown service. Back on the road. got to North Berwick in Scotland. Got there and was greeted by what has over the last 3 visits started to tur into one of my favourite places in the world. A blissed, blessed flat, overlooking enchanted beach. Already filled with some of my best friends on the world. Dave, however, perhaps felt slightly differently for a whole after I announced that I had dented his brand new car. oops. , I had a couple hours kip, before going out for a few beers down the local, and a few games of pool. Got some chips on the way home. Quite a lot of chips, and some fish. also went to the off licence, where Ben nearly got us into a scrape, by saying "let Herman Munster in first".... "HERMANN MUNSTER AM I NOW !" Questioned the 7'3" Neanderthal. Situation swiftly diffused by Mark "Ignore him mate - he's a ****** " Anyway - went back to the flat and parties till Wrong O'Clock. Slept till 5, pottered about, watched the fantastic view for a few hours. Had one of the funniest moments of the weekend.. A young lad, must have been about 8 decided to go for a discreet wee on the beach. Carefully he surveyed the scene, and failed to notice about 8 people staring in his direction out of a window 15m away. Got his todger out and started peeing on the beach - carefully keeping an eye over his shoulder whilst his parents carried on walking down the beach. Subtle Mark knocked on the window to attract the lads attention. Poor chap! 8 nutters cheering and laughing at his expense. He will never recover. His parents were desperately trying to disguise their own muffled roar of a laugh from him, as he hurriedly, self consciously, tried to catch them up on the beach. Later, the remaining few went out for a meal in the local bistro (MMMmmmm - top nosh!) Supreme chicken on Haggis mash. Yes. Everyone else had skink broth. also - v.good. Set off after the meal and got in for about 1:20. slept.
MondayGot up, went to work, came home to work for the rest of the day. Had pretty much all of the NB crew round for dinner - Chris Rhino cooked up a storm - nearly a whole Yorkshire lamb, with all the trimmings. Fantastico. Slept.
TuesdayGot up, went to work, meeting, went to Huddersfield, meeting, came back to work, went to Birstall (Leeds, Wakefield area) - meeting, came back to work - meeting. Went for a swift pint with Les, came home. Typed a blog, whilst eating egg beans and chips. Food rules. Missing Felix, who is on holiday in Devon with GranmaBampa.
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| ( 12:02 PM ) Matt |
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Another great tribute to DragonDrop, posted in the forum.
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| ( 10:48 AM ) Matt |
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I've just had my Friday the 13th experience of the day ! (touch wood) - An alarming chain of events killed the whole site for a few hours.
Arrgh !
Nearly all better now - had to revert to an older template.
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| ( 9:45 PM ) Matt |
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Here's a strange error message that I've just had: server disco. Tag not found
(On blogger, when I was trying to do a template update.)
What are they on about ??
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| ( 9:11 PM ) Matt |
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Life since last entry: Tuesday - nowt much, Wednesday - ditto, apart from a trip out to (Near) Scarborough on a work mission. Wednesday (yesterday) a big party to Celebrate Tina's Birthday. That was cool. We had a Casino theme in the Dining room, Big Casino (nearly spelt it Casio then.. watchcan junkie) sign in the entrance, with fairy lights around it. We sent out the invites, without Tina knowing to most of Tina's favourite people, asking them to Dress Casino. Roulette Table, Card table, chips. Lots to drink, and some Bossa Mundo, Música Feliz De Brasil on the Stereo. Happy fun night. Tina got a scooter and we all got sparklers.
Getting set for a day at the office tomorrow, doing a gig tomorrow night, and then up to Scotland at the weekend.
DragonDrop Facts. Some stats about this site:
On Monday's, DragonDrop.org receives more visitors than any other day of the week.
Lunchtime, between 1pm and 2pm is the peak visit time.
So The chances are, you are reading this, on your Monday lunch hour. What sort of other sites are you surfing ? What else are you up to ? Have you got loads of crisps in your keyboard ? ,Tell us, in the forum
Here are the top 40 (well, 39 actually) places that have visited this site;
1. Commercial (.com)
2. United Kingdom (.uk)
3. Unknown
4. Network (.net)
5. Australia (.au)
6. Ireland (.ie)
7. Netherlands (.nl)
8. Canada (.ca)
9. Turks and Caicos Islands
10. Military (.mil)
11. Education (.edu)
12. United States (.us)
13. New Zealand (.nz)
14. Organization (.org)
15. Colombia (.co)
16. France (.fr)
17. Belgium (.be)
18. Japan (.jp)
19. Brunei Darussalam (.bn)
20. Iceland (.is)
21. Italy (.it)
22. Saudi Arabia (.sa)
23. Sweden (.se)
24. Switzerland (.ch)
25. Estonia (.ee)
26. Finland (.fi)
27. Mexico (.mx)
28. Spain (.es)
29. Singapore (.sg)
30. Greece (.gr)
31. Hungary (.hu)
32. Germany (.de)
33. Brazil (.br)
34. Aruba (.aw)
35. Israel (.il)
36. Austria (.at)
37. Trinidad and Tobago (.tt)
38. Norway (.no)
39. Luxembourg (.lu)
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| ( 1:26 PM ) Matt |
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Fantastic ! - The DragonDrop Forum is being used, and it's already morphing and mutating down several very interesting lines of direction. The watchcam stuff is really interesting - I hope Casio are watching (may even give them a prod in a couple of weeks)
Ronin posted this picture. I had to share. If you have not done so already, stick your head round the forum door.
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| ( 1:45 PM ) Eirene |
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hello. it has been a long while since my last blogg time in cyberspace goes so quickly. I have been having lovely time bimbling about. at the moment my thoughts are centred around tinas surprise birthday and the burgening success of dragon drop's writers forum. the forum now christened dragon drop forum to go along with dragon drop events and dragon drop blogg read. aaaaaaaarragh we are taking over the world. so the founding members of dragondrop writers forum are Vicki, Jamie, Damian,Chris, Anna and I. the meetings are held every three weeks and if you have any further questions the click on the forum and go to writers forum where soon you will be able to find extracts of work we have produced and general information from what has occured in the last meeting and whatever else we feel is relevant. We ask you to repesct this forum and remember We are all amature but aspiring writers. any constructive comments will be welcome. we are off to get some air at brimham rocks hopefully blow away some cobwebs pick some blackberries and do some bouldering.
ciao
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| ( 12:15 PM ) Felix |
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hello this is felix.i am doing my first blogg. today we are looking on the computer. then after i have eaten my egg and bacon sandwich i am going to have some juice. Affter all of that I am going to look for my fire engin i think it is outside but firstr I am going to snuggle mama. bye bye love felix xxxxx
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"Anna's latest pics - August 2002"
The latest watchcam pics from our friend Anna have just gone up - click here to visit.
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Just been round for a few hands of cards with Bongo and Les. Came home, played a bit of guitar. Followed my feet towards a computer. Stumbled across this - (it's my birthday coming up soon... hint hint..;)
Trying to think of a way of describing it. It's All the best bits from Sports Bikes and Sports Cars.
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| ( 11:21 PM ) Matt |
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Site Update : The DragonDrop Forum is now live. Have a look, leave a message. There should be a link called 'forum' (stangely enough), Or you could click here.
How do I use the forum?
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WHoa ! Just scared the life out of myself. Left a a smouldering rolly on top of a disposable lighter on my desk and it just exploded. No fire or anyting, jsut a loud pop and hiss. Not so good.
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"Punk Kittens"
Someone sent me an email with a subject of 'PUNK KITTENS THEY ROCK' linked to this. It made me chuckle.
That's perhaps the most interesting thing I've seen in a couple of days. I've been to Leeds this morning. (Not very interesting), and around all the heavy pile of work I've been dealing with, I've been putting together a forum for DragonDrop. It's not quite ready to go live just yet. Perhaps it never will be, But of course, I'll let you know if it does.
update-just been rooting round the root of the above site. There's some funny stuff in there. The best - Chicken.
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"Stonehenge"
Latest watchcam colection now online. Stonehenge
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| ( 12:19 PM ) Matt |
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Superb fun packed weekend.
Friday - Went out with Luke round Chiswick. That was a bit of a larf. Went to a put that he claims in "one of the best pints of Stella in London" The pelican in wandsworth (As far as I can remember). Don't know why I've shifted onto Stella by the way. Maybe I'll get back onto the Guinness for the winter.
Saturday - met up with Eirene and the kids at Kings Cross (I can now well understand why he's cross with all the new development going on round there) with the mission of going to her Uncle Johns and Aunty Pat's for a big family re-union / bbq / celebration of Tristans 21st / celebration of James passing his exams. Any of the above would have been a good excuse for a party, but all together gave extra reason for a mass celebration. They had really pulled out all of the stops, including the making of a bar with actual taps of beer and lager. Very nice.
Sunday - Went to Stonehenge. Always wanted to go there. It's amazing to think that these massive blocks of stone were erected without the use of a single JCB / crane / low loader - no even little ones. Some of the blocks came from Wales. Interesting vibe at the place. Not as magical / mystical as I'd perhaps anticipated, due to the fact it was disneyfied ever so slightly by the barriers, the electronic guided tours and the high volume of tourists. What did I expect though - a load of naked witches dancing round a sacrificial lamb ? Out of season anyway. Superb though. Also interesting were the burial grounds, dotted around the surrounding countryside. Once pointed out, these 'mounds' are to be seen all over the place. I tried my best to imagine seeing these things 4000 years ago(when they were built). It must have been such a known event. Everyone in the country must have heard of it. Awe inspiring stuff. There are plans to re-route the main roads near the place and move the visitor centre away from the site, so that a 4000 acre plot of land will be left untouched, as it was intended. This plan gets 2 thumbs fresh from all at DragonDrop.
Watchcam Photo's from the weekend will be online soon. (watch this space)
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