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.
Jaygo by a canal in Goole, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. If you put Goole into Google it comes back with Google. If you click the search instead for Goole, it comes back with a bunch of info on an inland port in the East Riding of Yorkshire. We went there yesterday to visit Felix’s friend and family. Had a lovely… Read more →
So my friend / m’collegue Kath said she was going to Australia to see her lovely daughter Lauren (who’s bf is pictured on the last DD Adventure Shirt). She offered to take a shirt for The World Famous DragonDrop adventure shirt gallery. Now – I’d highlighted that the general rule of thumb is to get yourself photo’d wearing (or in… Read more →
It’s the back end of summer over there. T-shirt season is just about to start in the northern hemisphere. Summer looks ace. Just look at how outside and warm and surrounded by stuff growing and smiley this lot are. There’s one fella so full of the joys of it all, that he’s taken it upon himself to do a monkey… Read more →
…are you out of your mind? Was a fairly typical reaction. The original vision was to find a cottage in a sleepy little village in The Lake District where we could install ourselves around the open fire in its award winning real ale pub and go for long walks with dogs and so forth. Turns out, when you’re looking to… Read more →
So I’ve been to Whitehaven for a stag do and suffered a complete site outage for about 6 days. One brilliant, one horrible. My head and the mighty dragondrop.org both back in full health. More later!
Last night we got to eat at the fantastic La Grillade in Leeds. I’d been there out of the random blue last November to take some photos of Alan Bennett (Photo Set | Blog Post). I remember thinking at the time, as I floated around snapping, that it looked like an exceptional eatery. Eirene’s birthday provided the suitable excuse for… Read more →
Snow day on Sunday. Elsie (Springador pup) pulled a sled. A harness (rather than a collar) was attached to to the dog at one end and a sled at the other and hay presto. Sophie loved it. Eislie loved it. She had a job to do and she was very proud of herself for doing it. Good dog. Tonight I… Read more →
At the weekend Eirene and I along with a collective of 10+ other people convened in Birmingham to join several thousand other people in The Q Club for the last ever Atomic Jam there. Back in the mid 90′s, Eirene and I went to one of the first Atomic Jam’s there – so last October when my friend said he… Read more →
Last week myself and several hundred web heads converged on Nottingham for New Adventures in Web Design 2012. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect – some very good things had been said about its inaugural year (2011) and this year looked to be a very well put together gig. The brainchild of a fella called Colly – ’twas a real labor of love… Read more →
Riverside walk, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. A weekend of contrasts – Eirene and I had been out to a Festival warm up party on the Friday evening (the festy in question is DragonGate 2012 – no doubt more on that to follow). Much fun was had at this till the wee hours on Saturday – when I remembered I had… Read more →
A flurry of Adventure Shirt shots have been submitted for the gallery – due to one thing and another (broken computer that I had to fix to extrapolate saved images, Christmas and a bunch of other stuff) it’s taken me a while to get them up. Worth the wait though – some classics here – from the ice of Iceland to the hot… Read more →
Limekiln Plantation project, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. This morning we went on a lovely family walk (click here to see our route ). We dropped a car off at Fewston reservoir and drove another car up to Thruscross. On the road way up we noticed that there’d been a whole side of the valley razed to the ground – last time… Read more →
I’ve had the same semi-joke resolution for around the last 8 years – so far, un fulfilled. I’d like to drive a tractor. Preferebly a big monster of a tractor with loads of equipment fore and aft. Another resolution is to give up smoking in 8 years from now. My strategy for this is quite simple. 3 years ago, I… Read more →
Eirene took me on a surprise weekend away last weekend, and a very nice weekend it was. It’s been a while since we spent the weekend, sans kids. We did take the smallest of our brood with us though – Elsie (pic’d above) – our 12 week old Springador – who got her first official walk and was suprisingly excellent off the lead… Read more →
Slap bang down town Harrogate, two guys have all of a sudden found themselves more famous that Rudy (sorry – Harrogate in joke). In a very convincing bid to raise shed loads of money for St. Michaels Hospice, these guys have brought a slice of reality TV to town. I caught wind of them in Lancashire on Thursday when someone… Read more →
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