364.5 Days ago I launched a project to blog every day throughout 2013. Publishing this very post will complete that project. By way of something to write about today, I thought I’d surface some of my fave moments, and (going by view stats) some of yours. It’s been a remarkable year. Some of it I knew was coming – the… Read more →
Even though it was raining for 3 out of the 4 hours I was out this morning, the technology enhanced dog walk I went on this morning, was most enjoyable. I found 18 geocaches (a personal best). I’d uploaded 21 geocaches – as depicted below – a circular route that someone placed on to my GPS unit (Garmin Etrex H)…. Read more →
Whilst researching a geocache this morning, I spotted a strange looking thing on a Google satellite view – near Stonefall Park / Stonefall Cemetery. The thing that caught my eye was a concentric circle pattern that looked like rippling water… (Here’s a link to the Google map page) After Elsie (a dog) and I had successfully completed our geocache jaunt,… Read more →
Tip top night. It got to about 21:30 and there was no one in the house. Why am I doing this, thought I – it was empty. My wingman had pulled out at the last minute for personal reasons (he turned up later though) which made me happy. By 21:35, it was busy. It was as if someone had dropped… Read more →
We’re chucking another log on the FIRE party tonight. It’s been a while. We’ve got 5 DJs (including me – I’m doing a laid back warm up set from 21:00 – 22:00). Cloudbass will be playing his usual unusual, Johnny Kendal takes over from him, into Christopher Xtopher (..”Crosstopher”) followed by Archio Banquerta who’s on from 02:00. Try not to… Read more →
After a day of oversized portions and undersized exercise yesterday, I woke up this morning, feeling like I wanted to go on a burst of adventure. I scoured the maps and found a suitable looking geocache as a target, just above Blubberhouses. I arrived at the place I’d picked to park just before sunrise – around 08:00. It was minus… Read more →
A brilliant Christmas day was had by us. It’s now 23:30 so I’ve not got much time (or energy) to write a blog.. but just to say, today was a lovely, LOVELY Christmas day. Aside from the relatives and friends that we were so blessed to spend the time with, we hit the sweet spot of Christmas cheer and it… Read more →
The view from my office window today afforded me a glimpse of fresh snowfall. It was on Little Werenside – around 30 miles away. You can just make it out in the above piccy. I’ve finally broken up for Christmas. The first activity was attending the Christingle service at St Peters. That was lovely. It’s been cold. In case you’ve… Read more →
I like the phrase sticky beak. I first heard it in Nimbin, Australia. It roughly means child with food or snot on face. The other phrase that I heard there was ‘slippery dip’ meaning slide – as in a slide at a kids playground. Annie is feeding herself quite happily these days. A fair portion of it goes on the… Read more →
Around the third of January, when I started my “blog every day this year” quest, I wrote ” I’ll try and avoid the“Here’s a blog about my lunch” cliché, but I can’t guarantee it’ll be entirely lunch free.”. So far, I’ve done pretty well, but today’s blog (or part of it at least) is going to tell you about what we’ve… Read more →
Because my hand held GPS unit (as used for geocaching) knows exactly where it is in the world, it can tell you exactly what time the sun up and sun down in. This morning, I was at N 54° 00.814′ W001° 31.395′ when I snapped the above photo (just down the bottom of Bilton Lane, near The Gardeners Arms…. Read more →
Such a hectic day. When today started (first activity, a lap of The Stray, wi’ dog) I didn’t envisage a full blown busy one. It has been though – in quite a good way. One of my fave things about today was acquiring a new lucky bonnet. Straight Outta Yorkshire. I’m not 100% sure why I like this so much,… Read more →
Even thought I’ve still got a few days to go, today was the last ‘normal’ day of work for me in ’till after the Christmas break. Everyone starts to disappear from now on. It’ll be a time for mainly odd jobbery – hopefully some of those bits that get pushed to the bottom of the list O’Clock. There’s an air of conclusion… Read more →
Turns out that UK electro space-funk mavericks (their words) Pariis Opera House (their typo) have produced a rather good tune (my words) called Dragndrop, where the vocal lick bangs on about DragonDrop (our word) a lot. It’s got an air of Plump DJs about it, who I last saw smashing Glad to bits a few years ago. I’m going to get… Read more →
Annie is 9 months old today. 3/4 of a year, or to put it another way, It’s 0.25 years until St. Patrick’s day. This evening, we went to see Sophie perform in the Christmas school play and Carol concert. The play was The Grinch who stole Christmas. I took a few snaps of Sophie (who sang marvellously, by the way)… Read more →
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