Had an email from Ali who’s taken a DragonDrop Adventure T Shirt with her on her and Marcus’s big trip round the world. They are currently in South America – .I’m thinking of doing a ‘Ali Special’ Page in the Adventure Shirt section.. but for now, here’s a couple of my favorites so far:
“At the Sanctuary – QOOYLLORITY, quispicanchi province, PERU”
and this one..
(Ali and the world famous Baa Baa : “A room with a view in Lima”
Had a mainly cub related weekend – took the cubs out geocaching on Saturday morning – that was nice, Sunday we went to a ‘big adventure day’ at Thornthwaite cub camp. All sorts of fun activities on the go. Felix managed to set a new camp record for crate stacking (where you see how many milk crates you can stand on before they fall over – he was harnessed!) side by side record now set at 46!
Other than that, a bit of nice family time and an evening of Tiger Woods on the wii.
Went to the Lindley Woodstock Festival at the weekend – Technically a private party but had the feel of a early bloom festival. We all had a cracking time. I ended up engineering / stage managing the acoustic / ‘Lindley Top’ / Stage #2 for the day on Saturday – stepped into fill the gap of someone not turning up. I much prefer being involved!
Set in a lovely little (literal) neck of the woods, the event featured two stages / PA’s, Games area (everything from exercise bikes and table football to a bouncy castle) a couple of butty vans, big communal fire pit, an assortment of hippies, muso’s, punters, dogs, a cat and a chicken.
The top stage, the tee pee he pee she pee’s were all done out in acres of fabric that someone blagged from the Millennium Dome which I thought made the place look great.
The music was top notch in it’s variety as much as anything else. One of the surprise highlights for me was the Jed Thomas Band. Even thought they hail from my doorstep as it were, I’ve not seem them live for ages.. Doing the stage mix put me right in the middle of their sound – It was ace. Also loved the output of ‘Uncle Montey’ who’s Bell and Sebastian meets The Devine Comedy tunage was above average.
Anyhoo – back at work now wearing the t-shirt. Photo’s and vids to follow.
hammock, originally uploaded by DragonDrop.
The sun was shining this weekend and it felt like proper summer which inspired me to do summery things. On Saturday I was lucky enough to be able to spend all afternoon in my hammock. It’s 6’ off the ground (so that tigers and that can’t get me easily if I have a nod) and I’d stocked it with the following items; water, LW radio (for the cricket), a good book a phone and me. Pretty blissful. Eirene went out to a friends birthday party on the evening, I had my old amigo paintMonkey over and we proceeded to play Tiger Woods 08 on the Wii. I won.
We invented a new late night snack. Based on “The Fancy Dan” (cracker, cheese, jam, freshly ground black pepper), we came up with a winning snack with a winning name – “The Fancy Dante’s Inferno”. (cracker, cheese (blue), piri-piri relish, lee n perrins, black pepper).
Inspired by cheese and rum, we enthused about the idea of a bike ride / geocaching adventure the next morning. I planned a lovely 10 mile route that took in 4 geocaches. Splendid bike ride – got to proper off road and everything. The afternoon we all headed round to a BBQ at a friends house which wrapped up a wholly nice weekend. Heard of a small festival near Harrogate next weekend which I’m going to look into..
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Last night we went to an award ceremony at the Harrogate and District Scout Leaders AGM. Felix was a third of the team that represented the 16th Harrogate in the Mowgli cup – an annual event which has entrants from all over the Harrogate district.. thanks to Felix and co – the 16th Harrogate won!
Here we see Felix proudly clutching the cup (which reminds me of the ashes) with his team mates shortly after being presented with said cup by the new Mayor of Harrogate – Councillor Pat Jones.
The style of the book is a personal commentary, a stream of consciences from Sam Marsdyke – a 19 year old farmers boy who knows the 30 moors making up The Yorkshire Moors like the back of his hand. He knows their seasons, their natives, their boundaries. Some stuff in there that may appeal more to one that’s experienced the area with it’s huge expanses of open moorland and it’s infestation of “Towns” (as he calls them) with their bobble hats and packed lunches. Only someone who’s been brought up in Yorkshire and has spent time on the moors could turn a phrase like “Sound is light’s clog footed brother, always lagging behind.”
If you’re looking for a light hearted chocolate box book about the Heartbeat country in the Yorkshire Moors, try something else, if you’re after authentic page turner with some Greengrass roots dialect and a journey that could twist your mind a little this – could be worth a go. Read the first few pages / try this book over here.
Yay! Just put Clover back on the road! That’s a good thing for the summer. Today we’re off up near Catterick (where I was born) to take Felix to do some water based activity sports with Cubs. Even if it was not water based, it probably would be due to the volume of rain we’ve had for the last 12 hours.
