Typically two dimensional rectangles of words and/or pictures bound together in a physical or electronic form.
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 →
The internet is an immense collection of data. It’s getting closer, day by day, to containing the entire sum of everything that is written. ‘Everything’ is available online in one form or another. Some of it you have to pay for in the form of e-books, some of it is free, in the form of most web pages. A further huge raft, is being tirelessly assembled as… Read more →
Its the weekend (hoopla!). Friday night and I’ve just accomplished the fixing of a camera. Inspired by my post ‘shoots some film’ from a few days ago, I dug out two 35mm cameras. The Smena 8M on closer inspection was broken. I think I’ve managed to fix it by taking it apart, working out how it’s simple but utterly logical… Read more →
I love summer. It’s my favourite day of the year (boom boom!). This summer (as featured over the weekend we’ve just had) was a peach. Blue skies and hot. We were so happy that we’d arranged to go camping. Our destination was How Stean Gorge near the top of Nidderdale. A gorgeous place with a beautiful gorge and cave system running alongside… Read more →
It’s World Book Night day today and I’m a giver (again). I’ve been selected to give away a box full of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is a fantastic book – an easy, fairly light read, very engaging and does that thing a good book should do – leave you thinking about it for quite some time after you’ve read… Read more →
Completely out of the blue on Friday afternoon, I got a call from an old friend who was involved with an event in Leeds that needed a photographer as the arranged chap had dropped out. I jumped at the chance, then jumped at a shower, then jumped at a smart black shirt and headed for Leeds. Amid the Après-work city… Read more →
vin book, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. I’ve just had this photo of mine used by in this article by The Guardian. Thanks to Simon TW for the heads up. I think I should open a bottle of wine to celebrate or something.
Things have settled a bit now. Things have got a bit of a roadmap of how they may pan out. Jaygo has been on the up yesterday and today. They have removed his monitor machine (the machine that goes beep and constantly monitors and records his heart rate, respiration rate and blood saturation). They have taken him off hourly observation… Read more →
World Book Night, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. I’ve been selected to be ‘a giver’ on World Book Night, which is today. If you’d like a copy – I’ve got 48 to give away. As I’m solo-dad this weekend, I’m beached at DragonDrop Centraal (near the back of ASDA, Harrogate) – gotta pop out a couple of times, but only to… Read more →
Since Christmas, nearly all of my downtime has been in the company of one of these – an Amazon Kindle. A few people I’ve spoken too have seen the kindle as a threat to ‘the book’. Perhaps it is. Would that be the end of the world if the organic, tree ware book were to become as one with the… Read more →
We went to a wine tasting event yesterday at The Crown hotel hosted by Harrogate Fine Wine and their suppliers. 70 wines to have a go on, all of a very high standard. I experimented with whites (normally a red man) before going onto the reds. Quite a fascinating culture the wine crowd. I don’t confess to much about wine… Read more →
I’ve recently finished reading the Horatio Hornblower books by C.S.Forester. 11 books indispersed around all the other books I’ve read over the last 6 months. After a while I realised I was addicted to a finite resource so I spread them amongst other reading. The series following the life of a Royal Naval officer from the late 1700′s to the… Read more →
God’s Own Country by Ross Raisin This is the kind of book will stick in your memory for a long time. It draws you in from the outset, not reveling any precedence or hints as to the type of book you’re about to get into. It’s a thing of beauty yet shocking and chilling. Quite a short book of brilliant… Read more →
Storytime, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. Just uploaded a bunch of portraits / shots of people folk I took at the Newby Hall Easter fun day 2009 – Click here to visit the set. We love helping out with (Anima Mundi) at the event. Been doing it for 4 years now. This event was particularly fun, as I didn’t have that… Read more →
I seem to have developed a liking for books set (wholly, or in part) in India. Perhaps it’s the incredible diversity of the place where it’s culture, it’s people and religions saturate and permeate each other like no other place on Earth. Some of the notable titles on my ‘India List’ would be The Life of Pi (a book I… Read more →
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