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.
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…. Read more →
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… Read more →
So much has happened since my last proper bloggage. Miami and Mexico visits were one. Stunning time, super hot, cool fun. Long Haul with beds – now that’s one of the highlights for me. Biz class BA does better airport chilling, Biz class American Airlines does better airoplane chilling (although BA does a fantastic job, but AA pipped it by… Read more →
I’m in Mexico. The Aqua in Cancun to be specific. It’s quite an incredible hotel. It’s huge. We’re in a very nice suite indeed (The ‘Aqua’ suite). Splendid open terrace looking out over the 8 pools and the sea (which is in full surf mode today). The sun is just setting and we’ve got some tunes playing from the in… Read more →
I’m in America. At the Wyndham hotel near Miami airport to be specific (which I have to say is very nice, especially as I blagged a huge staff discount). First time I’ve been to the States. It feels so familiar yet quite surreal / confusing*. Had a superb flight over. Had the full intercontinental British Airways Club World treatment (no,… Read more →
We went hunting for this geocache this afternoon. This is on of ‘the originals’ in the area. As you can see by the arial photograph, it’s in the middle of nowhere. In the midst of Norwood Forest to be exact. It was great fun. Getting the kids out of the house, when in direct competition with the powerhouses of Nintendo,… Read more →
We’ve popped over to Dublin for a few days. Quite nice to have a break from the norm for a few days. Had a (mainly) ace weekend. After a night out on Friday I made amends for things on Saturday night by cooking a superb mussels dish (sort of like this recipe). The next day we had Eirene’s birthday which… Read more →
DragonDrop shirt shot, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. Then there was this one.. where we all went to see Bongo off into the big wide world by having a stag do on the Algarve. This was a rather big cliff which made my tummy go funny (nothing to do with the Super Bock). Bongo (pictured above showed no fear. He has,… Read more →
DSC_00350001, originally uploaded by Ashen. Then there’s Ashen at Wat Arun in Bangkok. That pointy pyramid shape they have going on is incredible – so much so, it’s moved the person in the background to give one a big cuddle.
Jamie sporting a DragonDrop adventure T-shirt, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. Just thinking about the DragonDrop Shirt Shots that I should of added to the gallery ages ago.. Jamie on Dave’s stag weekend up in’t Scotland. Epic banquets, Soggy walks, foggy talks, Leadergate, Whiskey. Fitba. The brilliance of being.
Popped down to London for the weekend with Felix. Got the train down last night and so far today have had a Simon Spesh fry up that’s set us up nicely for a day of fun and activity. Going to the Science Museum – a fantastic place. Looking forward to a re-visit. Also hoping to go to Hamleys, the worlds… Read more →
Third time lucky. Sometimes I’m not quite sure how to start a blog and (like just now) started, deleted, started again, deleted. It happens. The space between the first paragraph and the second paragraph here involved a meeting that I’d forgotten about. This third sentence I may actually get round to typing something that I was originally inspired to do… Read more →
I tried a walk last Sunday – a gorgeous walk. Not a circular walk – Eirene picked me up at the other end. We’d arranged a rendezvous but she randomly happened to be driving up the country lane that I was crossing near the rendezvous at the time. The route was pretty much all off road, all public right of… Read more →
So this was quite an interesting thing to do.. I’ve visited the counties in yellow. Which counties have you visited? made by marnanel map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright 2001.
My birthday was last Thursday. What a fabulous time I’ve had since then. The actual morning of my birthday involved a lovely breakfast in bed courtesy of Felix, Jaygo & Eirene followed by prezzies in bed! A tea pot (I’ve got into green tea recently you see), a bottle of VERY nice vintage malt whisky called coopers choice and a… Read more →
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