My mate Allan had his 50th birthday this weekend and pulled a mini festival together to mark the occasion. For those of you who don't know him, Allan is a top bloke and I consider myself very lucky indeed to call him a…
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- AllanGate
Camping tingsCamping out en mass with a big gaggle of kids, a cluster of grownups and a shed load of dogs. We've got a large communal tent structure set up in the middle of a big field with a PA, lights and a set of decks. I've been…
Turned out nice againJust about to embark on the first camping mission of the season. We've just got our van back from the van fixie shop. It's a bit of a dry run - we're only headed about a mile out of Harrogate, so if (when?) we realise…
- Something
Something's happened today that I can't talk about just yet, but is rather exciting. I'll come back onto that in a later blog, no doubt. The rest of this blog is likely to be me waffling on about nothing in particular,…
- Codeacademy vs Minecraft vs Cricket
Today my boy Felix (age 14) got cracking on www.codecademy.com . He has been expressing an interesting in learning 'code' and finding out about the how the internet is made for some time, so I pointed him there. I've…
- I've spent the day with Google people
Did you know, that every second, 500 hours of YouTube video are watched? I didn't this morning, but I do now, thanks to the time I've spent today with a some Google employees. I don't think they were aware that I'm such…
GrassingtonDrawn by the some'uts 'appening in Grassington rumors ( Grassington Festival ), we set Fathers Day Outing coordinates for upper Wharfedale in The Yorkshire Dales yesterday. Grassington is one of my favorite places. Even…
- Father's Day morning
Having 4 kids is brilliant on Father's day. The bigger 3 started me off with breakfast in bed - a classic Dutch breakfast (ham n cheese and egg on toast), a cup of perfectly made Yorkshire Tea and a big glass of orange…
- Blog from the hip
Timings of tonight have dictated that my blog of the day/ 365 is short. You be the judge of sweet. Its 23:20, my phone battery has died and I'm out. Option 1: go home and blog, Option 2: borrow friends phone, download…
- DIY Pizza and movie night
Jaygo's got his friend round for a sleepover, Sophie is at a sleepover. Tea (as pictured) is DIY Pizza, the movie is National Treasure. It's been a fun day - working from home (as per yesterday also). For one of the…
- Scraping the bottom of the Apple barrel?
Earlier this week, Apple hosted their big flagship show - WWDC - where they typically reveal the latest earth shattering, world changing products they've had up their secret sleeves - like the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac…
What's in my bag? (version 2)CLICK HERE for the annotated version. [only works on desktop 'puters] A few years ago, I spotted a group on flickr called "What's in your bag?". The idea is, you take the contents of your bag, spread it out and take a…
A Hitchhikers guide to the A59I picked up a hitch hiker this morning. It's something I do. Having hitched myself for years as a youth (before National Express and Megabus priced it out of the market) I now pay back the good karma when ever possible.…
- Google (Nexus) keyboard. Its a lot like swype.
So Google have released a new version of their native, out the box keyboard for their nexus devices. The sentence above was written on my nexus phone using it, this sentence is written using my nexus tablet using it.…
300th Cache, a Sight Tower and a visit to KnaresboroughI've been my son Felix's personal chauffeur today, which has opened up opportunities left, right and center for adventure. I picked him up from a sleepover he was at last night then, a drop off & pick up combo at a gig…