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.

Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House

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 →

Whitehaven and Site Down

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!

Riverside walk

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 →

New Year 2020.

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 →