20 years ago I started this blog with a tentative toe in the water describing our up-coming trip to Australia - which was the initial inspiration behind the blog. Since then, it's captured so much of our lives. Pre…
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- DragonDrop is 20 years old!
Working from home. Again.I love working from home. Eirene keeps bringing me healthy goodness for lunch like this. I'm (trying hard) to eat healthily. I had my gaul bladder removed last year so I'm supposed to be on a low fat diet (see fig a.)…
3 years in Dubai, Tim KobeSo the other day (the 11th) marked 3 years since I'd landed in sunny Dubai. Lots has happened - and apart from the being away from relatives and friends - and obviously, the long shadow of Covid-19 has impacted so much…
Biden, Vaccine, PeepoIt's a pretty good week for news; Biden wins the POTUS twitter handle (I was getting a bit bored of the last custodian... shaping up for a good end of season finale though). A lot of people disliked Trump. I can't say I…
Updated and Felix was hereJust testing things a bit - I've managed to update the back end of this creaking ancient old blog site. Images were not working before, posts were a bit iffy and half of it didn't work... if you can see a pic of Felix…
- Reflection of a long spell
It's been a while. Why am I not blogging anymore? I guess the massive change of scene we embarked on 3 years ago spun a few new things in and a few old things out. In : Dubai, CX, Corona, Out : Dragondrop.org,…
- Expat’s snapshot view of Brexit
It's still red hot and humid here in Dubai. Spending a lot of time indoors or by the pool. Swimming every morning is a nice perk of being here though. Being out here in the sandpit though - I will admit, is like living…
SuperbirthdayI took a day off work for my birthday. First step was being showered with gifts - a bottle of Johnny Walker black 12 and a plethora of upgrade items to pimp my shisha. After a bit of pottering about, dropping the kids…
- Sophie is 13
A bit late posting this.. But.. I'm sat here on a Friday morning (the first day of the weekend in Arab lands). My two girls are on the sofa next to me watching the intertubes. All of a sudden, we've got a teenager in…
Annie is 6 (tomorrow)I've just read a Dr. Seuss story to my 5 year old. Tomorrow morning, she'll be 6. I've read so my Dr. Seuss stories to my kids over the last 20 years, I probably know them all off by heart. It's the last time I'll read…
- Annie growing up
Google Photos decided to make a video of what it called 'Don't they grow fast' by piecing together lots of video clips of Annie over the past few years. It makes my nose tickle. Embedded content
Another yearI've been pretty off the mark with blogging this year. I love the idea of loving to blog again. Not to say that I've had an event free year. My micro interactions with the word tend to be documented on my instagram feed…
- Reflections on 2018 (not recovered)
At the time of writing these words (2026), the original copy for this page, along with a handful of others (less than 30 from a total of 2,438 posts) for some inexplicable reason, has been lost to the mists of time.…
- Guttenberg Editor
I'm trying out a new wordpress editor. It's a beta - set to replace the boiled in wordpress editor. The output (the bit you are reading now) will not look any different (in theory) but my writing experience is…
Felix is 20Felix, our first boy spent his birthday with us yesterday. We had a tip top day, but the best thing about it was (nearly - with the exception of Jaygo who's in the UK) that we all spent it together. In the morning, we…