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KTHNXBAI 2012, oh HAI 2013!

Published by Matt on 31 December, 2012 | Leave a response

Thumbnails from my instagram faves set on flickr What a year it’s been. Sometime around this time of year I get a bit reflective and retrospective. I did exactly 10 years ago today anyway, in a post entitled New Years Eve in 2002, which included a trip to Australia and a couple to Amsterdam, seeing the best gig of my life,… Read more →

Eating and drinking and eating and drinking

Published by Matt on 30 December, 2012 | Leave a response

Lots of the above. Christmas day was lovely. Its all been a bit of a blur since then. I’ve been working from home but given the weird timings this betwixt the big date weeks, its hard to keep track of the actual days. Highlights of the past week or two, apart from the big day (which was lovely) have been… Read more →

Christmas kick-off

Published by Matt on 14 December, 2012 | 1 Response

There’s always the rhetoric around this time of year that Christmas has lost its magic and that it has gotten far too commercial for its own good. I must admit, that compared to when I was a kid (and Christmas was the best word in the world), the first thing I think of these days, is an increased to-do list and a decreased bank… Read more →

Ladyfingers

Published by Matt on 4 December, 2012 | 1 Response

We were lucky enough to be invited to the UK premier of what turned out to be a funny, heart warming short film called Ladyfingers. The venue was fascinating; The Wharfe Chambers in Leeds. Stories of moles going undercover for 5 years, infiltrating political activist groups, tales of strictly no swearing transvestite parties (apart from in the designated swearing corner), the legend… Read more →

Busy ol’ weekend

Published by Matt on 3 December, 2012 | Leave a response

Squeezed a huge amount of activity into this weekend. Friends over on Friday – Cranium was the name of the rather good fun game we played. Part charades, part pictionary, part trivial pursuits, part call my bluff type board game. Enjoyed so much so, that we played it again on Saturday night with another bunch of friends but quickly established that the Play Dough was… Read more →

DIY and didn’t IY

Published by Matt on 26 November, 2012 | 1 Response

What can be described in a sentence – swapping our kitchen and our dining rooms around – is proving the “easier said than done” edict, correct. Some parts of it have gone swimmingly, and others (like a few bits this weekend) not so. I now know that drawers and corner base carousel units, with handles don’t mix and that perhaps… Read more →

On top of the world

Published by Matt on 19 November, 2012 | Leave a response

Richard Fountain he’s only gone and done it! – he made it.. to the top of the world. The summit of Mount Chimborazo, which is the place on Earth that’s the furthest distance from it’s center. I’ve been following his incredible Journey (post #1 | all posts tagged richardfountain) – from a rainy night in Harrogate in August, bolstered by Talisker… Read more →

Half way up as far as you can go

Published by Matt on 16 November, 2012 | Leave a response

A couple of postcards in from Richard – who we’ve been following on his adventure to climb the highest mountain on earth*. First – one that arrived this morning – and the second down, one from a couple days ago.. Only a Whymper Hi everyone, this is me, [in a] Dragondrop [adventure shirt] and various elements outside the Whymper Refuge… Read more →

It’s a pink one

Published by Matt on 8 November, 2012 | Leave a response

Despite the risk of being caught for contravening NHS NO PHOTO protocol, I risked this clandestine photograph of Eirene receiving her 20 week scan (21 to be specific) for the sake of content for dragondrop.org. All is good, all is well (as far as they can tell). We were lucky enough to have a trainee nurse / ultrasound operator – who spent about 4… Read more →

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Published by Matt on 8 November, 2012 | Leave a response

We’re following the adventures of Richard Fountain (see back-story of posts tagged richardfountain). Here’s his latest virtual postcard. Nice T-Shirt! Here’s the virtual scrawl from the back.. “Hello from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Am very fond of the Dalek like fountains to be found. The pic was taken by Jo Belton de Fabre who is living here at the moment, had a great time… Read more →

Double whammy of Adventure Shirt shots

Published by Matt on 23 October, 2012 | Leave a response

First up – a great snapshot of life – real life, from the streets of Mumbai. It’s been a while since a DD shirt has been shot in Mumbai – around 9 years to be amazingly almost exact to the day since the last shirt shot from Mumbai. Here is Slawek and Angela in Mumbai. … and the second whammy; - Richard… Read more →

Saw some deer, made a box.

Published by Matt on 23 October, 2012 | 3 Responses

Went for a walk at the weekend with some friends. Harewood area. Felix was down in London village, visiting friends so our walk was en route to destination Leeds to pick him up on the Sunday. We were lucky enough to see a heard (collective pro noun citation needed) of deer. They were estate deer, but we saw them in… Read more →

But is it art?

Published by Matt on 15 October, 2012 | 1 Response

Yesterday, I fancied a beach walk. Bridlington, on the East Coast of Yorkshire was the destination I plumped for, so having suitably enthused my family, off we set. We parked at a spot about 2 and a half miles south of the town, with a view to a perambulation, followed by a ice cream / cup-o-tea (optional) followed by a… Read more →

Half way to as far as you can go

Published by Matt on 11 October, 2012 | Leave a response

You may recall a post from a couple of months ago, when I was foretelling the adventures of Richard Fountain – who was en route to as far as you can go. Well – he’s been in touch – he’s recently been comms down on an intercontinental journey across the South Atlantic Ocean – from Africa to South America. The front of… Read more →

I tried one of these – the taste – somewhere between battery acid and 1000 lemons. Awful level set to extreme hostile. Naturally, I wanted to let my kids experience them…Here’s the video of them attempting the Sour Challenge.