I went our for a couple of rounds tonight with my way better than me at disc golf buddy. I was on form (even though I say so myself) as got round the 9 holes in 33 'smashing' my previous nrear 7 year old PB of 34. The…
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Instagram post (embedded in original — not directly hotlinkable, click through) I was lucky enough to be able to enjoy an afternoon in a pub today. Eirene (my lovely, and very tolerant wife) took care of everything else…
Wedding in Hebden BridgeI am in Hebden Bridge, well I'm on a Terrence overlooking the valleys at a golf club above the town. Been shooting many many photos. This image was part of an exhibition at the Town Hall done by a local primary school.…
LifeHere's a photo I took the other day using a film camera in a backwater of a town called Earby, just over the border from Yorkshire into Lancashire. Its of a hapless patch of green growing amidst an sea of tarmac. An…
All bases coveredA friend of mine, who likes my photography, wants to me do what I do (photo-wise), at his wedding this weekend. I've just been plotting my kit list. There's basically the kit photographed above, (plus my trusty LC-A )…
- Smellography
I've often joked in meetings about how some ideas are a bit 'pie in the sky'. An example that I've jokingly referenced in such conversations (as a benchmark of the particularly untenable) would be 'Smell-o-Vision'. The…
- Speed reading
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…
- 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…