Jaygo by a canal in Goole , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . If you put Goole into Google it comes back with Google. If you click the search instead for Goole, it comes back with a bunch of info on an inland port in…
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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Jaygo by a canal in Goole
Sydney Opera HouseSo my friend / m'collegue Kath said she was going to Australia to see her lovely daughter Lauren (who's bf is pictured on the last DD Adventure Shirt). She offered to take a shirt for The World Famous DragonDrop…
Tulley, Queensland, AustraliaIt's the back end of summer over there. T-shirt season is just about to start in the northern hemisphere. Summer looks ace. Just look at how outside and warm and surrounded by stuff growing and smiley this lot are.…
Whitehaven..? For a Stag Do..?...are you out of your mind? Was a fairly typical reaction. The original vision was to find a cottage in a sleepy little village in The Lake District where we could install ourselves around the open fire in its award…
- Whitehaven and Site Down
So I've been to Whitehaven for a stag do and suffered a complete site outage for about 6 days. One brilliant, one horrible. My head and the mighty dragondrop.org both back in full health. More later!
La GrilladeLast night we got to eat at the fantastic La Grillade in Leeds. I’d been there out of the random blue last November to take some photos of Alan Bennett (Photo Set | Blog Post). I remember thinking at the time, as I…
Mush!Snow day on Sunday. Elsie (Springador pup) pulled a sled. A harness (rather than a collar) was attached to to the dog at one end and a sled at the other and hay presto. Sophie loved it. Eislie loved it. She had a job to…
Atomic Jam reminded me that I ♥ TechnoAt 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…
New Adventures in Web Design 2012Last week myself and several hundred web heads converged on Nottingham for New Adventures in Web Design 2012 . I wasn't quite sure what to expect - some very good things had been said about its inaugural year (2011) and…
Riverside walkRiverside walk , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . A weekend of contrasts - Eirene and I had been out to a Festival warm up party on the Friday evening (the festy in question is DragonGate 2012 - no doubt more on that…
DragonDrop Adventure Shirt ExtravaganzaA flurry of Adventure Shirt shots have been submitted for the gallery - due to one thing and another (broken computer that I had to fix to extrapolate saved images, Christmas and a bunch of other stuff) it's taken me a…
Great Great Great Great Grandchildren..Limekiln Plantation project , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . This morning we went on a lovely family walk ( click here to see our route ). We dropped a car off at Fewston reservoir and drove another car up to…
- New Year 2020.
I've had the same semi-joke resolution for around the last 8 years - so far, un fulfilled. I'd like to drive a tractor. Preferebly a big monster of a tractor with loads of equipment fore and aft. Another resolution is…
SurprisesEirene 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)…
Mannequin ChallengeSlap bang down town Harrogate, two guys have all of a sudden found themselves more famous that Rudy (sorry - Harrogate in joke). In a very convincing bid to raise shed loads of money for St. Michaels Hospice, these guys…