I'm in the process of teaching myself how to speed read. The idea that I'll be able to take on-board information up to around 5 times quicker, appeals. At the start of my quest, I was clocking from around 215 words per…
July 2013
31 posts
- Speed reading
- Twitter
Just over 7 years ago @jack tweeted the worlds first tweet : “just setting up my twttr". Since that first tweet from user number 3 (after @twitter and @biz) around 554,750,000 others have joined the ranks of twitter and…
- The Ashes are upon us
The Ashes themselves are a 15 cm tall thimble of a trophy, who origins date back to a small add placed in The Sporting Times in the summer of 1882, where Australia essentially rubbed England's noses in a defeat. The…
- Yorkshire Tropics
For no discernable reason, I walked to Knaresborough this morning from my house in Harrogate town centre - down the river path. We'd done part of the walk last week but the idea of carrying on to and going all the way…
Globe Theatre On Tour's King LearI may as well get this out of the way first: The Title Role of King Lear was played by Joseph Marcell, who played Geoffrey in the massive 90s mainstream TV hit : The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air . To be honest, I was a tad…
- Instagram does sharing
Instagram post (embedded in original — not directly hotlinkable, click through) Yesterday, instagram (owned by facebook) announced on their tumblr blog (owned by Yahoo!) the ability to embed instagram hosted content on…
Jaygo is 12Here's Jay (resplendently sporting his birthday pants on his head). Also featured, a rather freaked out by the whole thing Annie Mo, and a Sophie Pi. Jay has grown up with this website. He's had pretty much all of his…
- Human Milk Bank
For the last 4 months or so - since [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2013/2013-03-18-the-birth-of-annie-mo|the birth of Annie Mo]], Eirene has been slowly filling up a storage crate in a deep chest freezer, with…
The Tea Chronicles"Oh? You're going to to a blog about it? A blog about a blogger?" said Felix (my son, age 14) just now. Charlie McDonnell, aka charlieissocoollike is a "Professional Internet Human" (his words), his content is pretty…
Bilton BeachWhilst you were watching the mens final from Wimbledon, we had a day by (and in) the River Nidd near Harrogate. There's a spot known by a few as 'Bilton Beach' about half way along the path that takes you from Bilton in…
Claro BeesOn my way back to the car after a beautiful dog walk around Birk Cragg near Harrogate this morning, unexpectedly, I ended up learning a whole bunch of stuff on the fascinating subject of bees. I spotted a modest little…
Kodak Ektar 100Marketed as a professional film, Kodak Ektar 100 35mm claims to be "The World's Finest Grain Color Negative Film". The quality of the result it is utterly unique. I shot a roll mainly last weekend - mainly outdoors…
- The Fresh King
A place not to far from home, lies an eighteenth-century country house situated on the banks of the River Ure. We got to know it's grounds like the back of our hands, thanks to helping out and running several events…
- Haiku
Diesel on the road Motorbike man flipped and fell Ambulance, I called. The police turned up The man on the bike looked dazed Ambulance helped him. It was quite a shock Blue lights arrived in numbers They closed the…
- Beard
I bumped into a friend this morning whilst out on a dog walk. She proclaimed that she didn't recognise me, due to my "beard" (I'm about 10 days estranged of razors). She later went on to remark that it was a massive…