Moving to a new country feels more like a new book than a new chapter. We’re bound to have several chapters within the book. I’m past page one now but still in the preface. It feels like I’ve been here longer than 11 days. A midnight landing a week last Sunday. The arrival at base camp 1 (Ibis Hotel Deira… Read more →
In my last blog post, I described a project called 100 strangers, and how I’ve embarked on the quest to get photos of 100 strangers. I’m toying with the idea of the same kind of thing, but for 100 acquaintances. Perhaps the moniker “100 friends” may be more appropriate, but that’s already being used by a rather groovy sounding charity thing. So, 100 acquaintances… Read more →
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 →
A last minute party that went through several different phases. A party that had about two pregnant ladies and 2 unpregnant ladies, 6 young men, 7 middle aged men a Sophie and a dog. Phase 1 : heavy snacking Phase 2 : cranium team game Phase 3: mega nice curry and rice and ting Phase 4: countdown (Courtesy of Pete… Read more →
We were lucky enough to be invited to the UK premier of what turned out to be a funny, heart warming short film called Ladyfingers. The venue was fascinating; The Wharfe Chambers in Leeds. Stories of moles going undercover for 5 years, infiltrating political activist groups, tales of strictly no swearing transvestite parties (apart from in the designated swearing corner), the legend… Read more →
Went for a walk at the weekend with some friends. Harewood area. Felix was down in London village, visiting friends so our walk was en route to destination Leeds to pick him up on the Sunday. We were lucky enough to see a heard (collective pro noun citation needed) of deer. They were estate deer, but we saw them in… Read more →
We experienced two incredible and quite unique pieces of Yorkshire Art this weekend. The first being in the form of a play at Harrogate Theatre on Friday night. The Lighthouse on Shivering Sands. Adapted from a short story, this tale of intrigue was told using just 4 very adaptive actors and an ingenious set and prop combo that could transform from a ship, to… Read more →
Eirene made a batch of hedgerow jam With freshly picked this morning fruit. Blackberry crabapple rosehip & elderberry to be specific. Bramble jam. Hedge in a jar. Lovely. The blackberries in particular seem to be a bit late this year. Nice thing to do with your Sunday morning.
I pretty much squeezed my whole weekend into one day. I was up at the crack of dawn and deep in in the Dales first thing on Saturday – dropping Jaygo off for a Scout challenge called Tohunga. Whilst I was in the area I thought I’d go for a walk with Elsie (a dog). As the river was close to… 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 →
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 →
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 →
He may be 13 today but I’m pleased to see that he still has this reaction to Jelly Babies originally uploaded by DragonDrop. The big highlight of the now is that we’ve got a teenager all of a sudden. Felix has turned 13. Lovely morning this morning of cards and prezzies. Xbox is the big un – clubbed together prezzy… Read more →
Perhaps his broad appeal and accessibility is behind the fact that he has not only a gallery honoring his name, but a theatre, a car park and a shopping centre also. I’d had “take family to the Lowry, Manchester” on my todo list tagged #rainyday for about 2 years. Perhaps like pretty much everyone, he appealed to me. His ubiquitous,… Read more →
Eirene, my lovely wife of 11 years yesterday morning asked where I thought we should go for our wedding anniversary meal. I immidiatly brought out the big guns: “William & Victoria? Drum & Monkey?” The text thread went quiet. An hour or two later she came back with the suggestion of “Sage Bistro I reckon looks nice xxx” The thing… Read more →
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