Adventure

What have the Romans ever done for us? Given us the Latin ‘adventurus’; meaning ‘about to happen’, from advenire ‘arrive’. That’s what.

The ‘Adventure’ part of the ‘DragonDrop Adventures’ moniker, was spawned from “Watchcam Adventures”. Now defunct, but once the world’s leading forum on all things watch camera. Now-a-days, the ‘Adventure’ category is the flag bearer for new, unusual, exciting or daring experiences.

Grassington

Published by Matt on 17 June, 2013 | Leave a response

Drawn by the some’uts ‘appening in Grassington rumors (Grassington Festival), we set Fathers Day Outing coordinates for upper Wharfedale in The Yorkshire Dales yesterday. Grassington is one of my favorite places. Even though it gets hammered with tourists with the rest of them, it never seems to sell out, or worse, have that air of ‘us and them’ that so… Read more →

300th Cache, a Sight Tower and a visit to Knaresborough

Published by Matt on 9 June, 2013 | Leave a response

I’ve been my son Felix’s personal chauffeur today, which has opened up opportunities left, right and center for adventure. I picked him up from a sleepover he was at last night then, a drop off & pick up combo at a gig he was doing. The downtime I had allowed me to go a walk and find my 300th Geocache…. Read more →

Intense logistics, a run off dog and a me pic

Published by Matt on 28 April, 2013 | Leave a response

Yesterday was funny. I “wrote” my daily blog (thus ensuring continuity of my DD365 project) using a method I’d has in mind as a back up reserve idea – see, it dawned on me that where I was going, the internet may not be an option. A hands free speech to text tool – powered by Google – enabled me… Read more →

Surprise views

Published by Matt on 25 April, 2013 | Leave a response

Just been out for a lovely walk wi’ dog and my as good as new LOMO LC-A camera in between our kids social appointments and us being their hackney carriage. Beautiful sunset – we’d rambled down the railway lines then across ‘the big field’ over the other side of the lines from Harrogate High. Had a couple of geocaches plugged into… Read more →

Majestic morning and tree

Published by Matt on 13 April, 2013 | 1 Response

Without sounding like some old hippy, I had a beautiful experience of nature this morning. I walked up the upper reaches of the ‘new’ Nidderdale Greenway or the ‘Harrogate – Killinghall – Ripley’ cycle path’ that I blogged about last week. Bathed in golden light and dawn chorus, just me and dog. We even saw a deer. She popped out… Read more →

Not quite cracking flags temperature yet, but a beautiful blue sky drive into work this morning across The Yorkshire Dales. Continue reading →

Adventure box

Published by Matt on 26 March, 2013 | Leave a response

I’ve discovered that buying a second hand roof box is an incredibly complicated thing to do. I had to learn so much about said items that if there was a degree course, I think I could walk away with First Class Honors. My dissertation would focus on how to extrapolate information curtailing to the dimensions, fittings and fixtures of the… Read more →

Snow day

Published by Matt on 23 March, 2013 | Leave a response

Slow Mo Elsie, playing with snow earlier today. A week and a half or so ago, I mused with a rather smug tone that I suspected we’d seen the back of the winter. ‘Winter’s last hurrah’ I spouted. I didn’t expect to see quite this volume of snow until we’d had at least a semblance of summer, a smattering of autumn behind… Read more →

Photograph tastic

Published by Matt on 22 March, 2013 | 4 Responses

This photo of us being photographed was taken by Henry (who’s up north to take part in a ultra marathon race tomorrow). The local news paper heard about our recent birth experience and as a result, we’ve been interviewed and photographed – we might be in next Thursday’s Harrogate Advertiser. Other significant happenings today – I got some new glasses… Read more →

Euphoric smiles in an ambulance. That doesn't happen very often.

The birth of Annie Mo

Published by Matt on 18 March, 2013 | 14 Responses

Back at home now, all splatting around the family room after a life changing 24 hours. Yesterday morning; St. Patrick’s day, Eirene had our new baby. A baby that I delivered single handedly, in our hallway. We’ve called the latest member of the DragonDrop family – Annie Maureen (named after both of our mums). She’s a beautiful 7lb 6 ouncer. She’s… Read more →

Titus Salt

Published by Matt on 21 February, 2013 | 1 Response

Today we went to one of our fave indoor places in Yorkshire. Salts Mill, Saltaire in Shipley. Titus Salt who built the place in the middle of the 1800s was quite an amazing fella. Whilst a lot of his contemporaries were building sweat shop setups, he was putting a lot of effort into building a nice place to work. He… Read more →

I like a bit of rain

Published by Matt on 10 February, 2013 | 1 Response

I spent the morning outside today around Nidd Gorge, between Harrogate and Knaresborough. I was looking for a geocache – failed on that score (hunted for it for over an hour, to no avail) but as a bi-product of a few hours of woodland immersion, away from The Race, I felt connected with nature again. It was above freezing by… Read more →

Heroes Square Budapest

Published by Matt on 8 February, 2013 | Leave a response

This was shot late last night and immediately dispatched to DragonDrop HQ, via the medium of twitter; @dragondrop -Dragondrop Adventures reaches Budapest!Instagr.am/p/VcoadVnT3O/ — Ben Osmond (@benosmond5) February 7, 2013 This is the 85th Adventure Shirt shot to make it to the DragonDrop Adventure Club Gallery, for the record. He was in Heroes Square, Budapest, Hungary to be specific. It’s funny that,… Read more →

Benefit show for Skateistan

Published by Matt on 27 January, 2013 | Leave a response

We went to a leaving do in Leeds last night. Another never before experienced format of an evening for us; a benefit gig and art auction raffle for a skateboard based charity. Wharfe Chambers – the utterly unique venue we first went to in December for the UK premier of the film Ladyfingers was host. Before I jump into a… Read more →

New Adventures in Web Design 2013

Published by Matt on 24 January, 2013 | Leave a response

I’m going to dive straight into this whilst it’s still very fresh in my head.. The short version : New Adventures in Web Design was a brilliant. The slightly* longer version: I see web people. 400 of them in Albert Hall Nottingham, with its massive organ (pictured above). We got to watch some talks, by and large, on webby stuff…. Read more →