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About time I got my Ireland Adventure shirt shots up online. .
The one I've gone with is was take at Europe's most westerly point.. but I nearly went with this one, with the caption...
Contrary to popular belief, Tipperary was not that much of a long way after all. To be sure, to be sure.
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| ( 4:42 PM ) Matt |
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it's.... tonight
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| ( 1:47 PM ) Matt |
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cor blimey! back now. What a great adventure that was. more to follow. I'm playing tonight (BRB Harrogate) and a gig tomorrow (velvet in Leeds) and of course.. FIRE X on Sunday.
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| ( 10:07 PM ) Matt |
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I'm in Dublin now. Good drive out in trusty clover (our van). Met up with Eirene and the kids and Eddy (Father in Law). Just had a lazy night and had fun with the boys. It's nice to be back in the family unit again. Had a take out curry - very nice. We are thinking of heading up to North West Ireland tomorrow - perhaps Donegal, (looks like a nice area). Just read about "drumlins of Cavan" also in the NW. No idea what drumlins are, but they sound cool.. Anything with a drum in it I usually like. We then intend to spend the following 5 days bimbling down the West coast before heading back, but who knows.. our plan this adventure is to have no real plan. Should be grand. Should be good crack. To be sure.
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| ( 7:58 AM ) Matt |
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just about to set off to Ireland. Quite excited. Long drive to Hollyhead, ferry, Dublin.
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| ( 9:51 PM ) Matt |
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Not such a 'smart car' now is it? This was the scene outside Blues Bar Harrogate at dusk this evening when TT, one of the regulars left his smart car parked outside whilst he went bowling - to play for the Blues Bar bowling team I might add. It got worse. A work of art - shrine like candles were placed in a ring around the vehicle, everything from tree's to flyers, dustbins to football shirts were adorned on said vehicle. I scarpered sharpish before TT returned.
The Blues Bar restaurant - The Blue Nile was celebrating it's first birthday with a spread of scrumptious Egyptian food, The night was supposed to go down a path of world music and belly dancers - poor old Dharma was trying to do serious set inside. Somehow I think there was a slight distraction. Well done the Blues for remaining to be the maddest place in town.
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| ( 3:23 PM ) Matt |
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The latest DragonDrop Adventure shirt shot:
DragonDrop Adventure Shirts
Mark, Bunaken , North Sulawesi, Indonesia August 2004
I want to pick them up form Mancester airport this morning. Sounds like they had an amazing adventure.
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| ( 2:11 PM ) Matt |
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Just saw this woman in town. She had the longest hair I've ever seen. It was a huge single dreadlock, about 5 foot long. There was a ball at the bottom that was lifting further hair off the ground. The woman may have been in her 70's. Respect to the woman who made something her life mission, and stuck to it!
Been up and pottering around today, cleared down a gig that I did last night at BRB with DJ Brett Weatherhead. The night's called 'Community' and it's a good little night. De place was a pumpin. Deep house type shenanigans. Now I've got work to do. Wish I could be out there having a sunny adventure. Still... Hoping to get to Ireland next week....
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| ( 10:52 PM ) Eirene |
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Hello. It was another beautiful sunny day here in Dublin and my dad
babies and I went to the pat pat farm. I was expecting just a farm
courtyard and some animals to pat but Airfield completely amazed me.
Firstly there were no animals to pat except some horses even smaller
then shetland ponies (the original 'my little ponies') and secondly the
whole place was set in acres and acres of beautiful gardens each walled
off and each section with its own theme. Throughout were placed
contempory and modern sculptures seting off the planting perfectly and
intermingled with those art students with water colours doing their
best to represent the stunning scenary surrounding them. The actual
place was owned by two well to do sisters who left it to the state when
they died. It was decided to build houses on the land but there was
such out cry that the council had to change their minds and expanded on
what was already there to create a place of such magicalness that you
forget that only a few walls away is the real world of hustle and
bustle. Afterwards we went to try the new tram system Dublin has
recently introduced. The kids loved it even jaygo who had turned into
the elephant baby after an allergic reaction to some of the grasses at
Airfield. The Luas as it is known was very fast and on time but what
made me laugh the most was at the end of the line the conductor over
the tanoy told everyone to 'enjoy their shopping and comiserated with any
blokes who might be having to tag along with their ladies as they
shopped because he had been there and sent them all his sympathy and
wished everyone a lovely day and God bless us all'. If only all
conductors were so amiable.
Ciao ;)
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| ( 10:31 PM ) Matt |
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______Actual size________
My new phone is ace. Been geeking out on it. Who would have though it 15 years ago, that a something smaller than a box of smokes could carry a camera, 3 video games, an FM radio, a digital stereo, a dictator machine, a phone book, a calendar, a notepad, a picture viewer, a web browser, an answer machine, a pager... oh yea and a phone. Amazing. In't technology brilliant. Nokia - Nokia 6230 - Phone Models - Phones
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| ( 9:17 PM ) Eirene |
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Greetings from Ireland. It is a bit hard typing with a broken wrist so please excuse the shortness. Arrived late last night. The kids were so excited they literally ran constantly till they were strapped in the aeroplane but by the time we reached Dad's my plan of travelling late to wear them out had worked and they slept as soon as their heads touched the pillows (unlike tonight where an obviously knackered yawning felix tried to persuade me that he wasn't tired at 2100). Today we went to the Zoo. I am not really a fan of zoo's having heard too many bad stories but after reading 'The life of Pie' where the chacter lists some very convincing reasons as to why some zoos do do a good job and the animals are happy (don't believe me try the book it is fantastic and won the Booker prise 2002). The kids loved it. There is a huge lake as you enter which has quite a few large islands each one had a different species of monkey on it. Alot of the animals there have recently had babies much to my babies delight and Jaygo especially bonded with a baby orangutang who had spotted he was eating an apple obviously a similar food to hers and came up to investigate. The weather was sunny and warm and apres the zoo we all went to my Nana's for dinner a rare treat as she is the best cook as all nanas should be. Tomorrow we are off to a pat pat farm so more animal tales shall ensue I'm sure. Felix and Jaygo met the kids on the street tonight and all became fast friends. It is so nice to be in a place that the children can play out I love Dragon Drop but it is one thing it does lack. Hope Matt remembers to feed the cats.
Ciao ;)
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| ( 8:42 AM ) Matt |
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By now Eirene should be in Ireland.. dropped her off last night at the airport. I'm hoping to catch her up next week (Van permitting - need some bits and bobs sorting out on her first). Dave is back from his travels. He's been out 11 months. Good outing by the sound of things. Went out for a couple of beers then came back here with a few people and spent an hour looking at photo's, nattering and drinking.
So today, I'll keep busy, or I'll mope around missing my noisy boys and lovely wife. Got loads to do. My new phone should be arriving today. I had the option on on of these - a Nokia 6230 or these - a Nokia 6820. I went for the 6230 . The thing that tipped the scales was, even though the 6820 one had a qwerty keyboard, which seemed to be it's redeeming feature, the keyboard was fiddly to use (perhaps more so that the multi function numeric pad) and it's one of them phones that I knew I'd end up breaking. It's funny how these things work.. my 6210, which has been on it's last legs for a while, finally looks like it's giving up the ghost - today!
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| ( 10:34 AM ) Matt |
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Fantastic weekend. Apart from one thing - Eirene broke her arm. It's now in a pot. Stumbling about on a dark camp site did the trick. Ahh well. We were out in a field near Harewood at our friends baba's 'welcome the world' gathering. About 50 of us turned up. This was a photo taken on the sundown of Saturday night - lovely :)
After that I went to play at a private party for a load of hairdressers. Top night. Torrential rain held off until Monday. It has not stopped since!
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| ( 8:53 AM ) Matt |
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Looking forward to the weekend. Off to a mini festival type thing to celebrate a 'welcome to the world' for a friends baba, then doing a private party on Sunday. Got some deadlines today so I'd better crack on. Today I shall be mostly listening to GrooveSalad, from SomaFM..
SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio
it's great. SomaFM describe GrooveSalad as "A tasty plate of ambient beats and grooves. Takes the edge off work." I quite agree. Then if I get bored with that - boombastic radio - who discribe themselves as "funk jazz soul hip-hop latin afro reggae deepbeats :: live 24/7" What more could I ask for? I was thinking that I've been listening to these for years and don't think I've given them a shout.
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| ( 10:11 AM ) Matt |
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How strange. Raw Horseflesh ice cream. Only in Japan.
I thought that the hoarse must be a gimmick one off or something but there are loads of bizarre ice creams from different manufacturers. Soe of the best (er I mean worse) beside hoarse would be GARLIC !, whale, salt water, silk, Stout, the list goes on - the only good one in there that ther reviewer seemed to like would be the red wine one. Check it out..
MDN: The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream
Thanks to who? for sending this in.
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| ( 1:07 PM ) Matt |
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The Fire IX photo's are up
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| ( 11:21 AM ) Matt |
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Wow. What a night last night was. Great music, great vibe. Superb fire acts - all good good good. Mike H (Leeds) kicked the night off really well with a deep dish of house, into Cloudbass who did a great set - quite a lot of his own stuff in there into Quinny's heavily late 90's influenced set followed by the legend that is Dharma. Hit capacity aound 10, and a steady stayed full till hoofin out time. Sorry about the queues - but probably the most entertaining queue with stuff like this going on. More phpoto's to follow.
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| ( 3:44 PM ) Matt |
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The sun has got his hat on, and it's fire tonight. Hip hip hip horaay.
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