What a great spot Marsk-by-the-Sea beach is. It's an overlooked stretch of beach - the maddening crowds head for the Rock Stars of that area - Whitby, Scarborough and the like (which I'm not knocking, very nice.. but)…
Adventure
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.
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Intense two weeksThis last two weeks have been amongst the most intense two weeks of my life. I've either been busy, drinking or asleep. Here's a checklist of what I've done. • Delivered a talk in front of 100+ mostly strangers on my…
- UX Conversion Camp, Manchester next Thursday.
I've been invited to talk at ' UX Conversion Camp ' next Thursday. I attended last year, it was ace. A mix of UX, Business, Psychology, Usability, Accessibility, Ethnographics and cats. Weirdly, I didn't blog about it…
Jessica... Jess for short. Postman Pat has a red van. His cat's called Jess. Obviously. We got her last weekend from Corby, just around the corner from the Wheetabix factory. She's a beauty. A 1993 Renault Trafic Romance…
We gave up added sugar for Lent40 days and 40 nights without Sugar. I've just discovered it's actually 46. Eirene suggested it just before pancake day and I thought - yea, why not? My daughter Sophie was also in for the ride (albeit encouraged by the…
A bunch of photosFilm is ace. You drop it off, you wait a bit and then the joy of opening the results for the first time are way better than seeing the results instantly on a digital back. Mostly. As well as that, the results are often…
National Ace CentreWe did London last week. Our first trip away from the boys - they stayed at home whilst the girls and I (sans Elsie dog) went to London. I'll have more on that via the medium of film photography with a bit of luck. In…
Surprise weekend, near Surprise ViewI'm going away with a friend for the weekend (she told me). I'll need a lift up to Otley Chevin Country Hotel & Spa (she asked.). Imagine this cold weather, and I'll be sitting in an outdoor hot-tub, drinking champagne…
- Mystery Photos
My new years resolution was 'shoot more film'. Long story short (my theory is that) by shooting film, I'm spurred to be more creative, do more extra curricular creative things, that kind of thing. A sub plot is, that…
I'm in San Fran againHere's a superb view from the 24th floor of The Fairmont hotel which I got to soak up at a works Christmas party on Friday night. I've been over here since around Wednesday. I've been on a pretty intense journey of…
- Brass tastic
M'colleague's husband plays bass trombone in the Hade Edge Brass Band . They were playing today in the Band Stand, Wetherby. We wandered along on the wind of wondering if the 'come along' suggestion would come good. It…
Reasons.to.2016I've just attended Reasons.to. An "Award winning, international 3 day conference with a festival vibe" mostly single track conference set in the wonderful city of Brighton. Although I'm still processing the huge amount…
- GeoCities to Raspberry Pi
I'm just back from an (AMAZING) conference. More on that later - I'm writing a longer piece. In summary, mainly designers, coders and artists 3 day thing in Brighton. Anyway, Heart Internet were sponsoring the event and…
- UX LONDON 2016.3
Day 2 for me, day 3 for the conference (I nearly called it a festival then) and I was fully switched into learning mode. After the afore mentioned 'Full English' breakfast (sans black pudding) I used the UX chair lift…
- UX LONDON 2016.2
Seb Lee-Delisle joked last night, in the day two closing event (where he turned the whole audience into a band using glow-sticks, after we'd all played a game of giant laser drawn flappy bird where we, the crowd,…