I've spent a lot of today updating the skin of this website. The old design (screenshot above) was still looking good in my humble opinion, but there were bits of it that were old hat. I'd come across a fantastic new…
Matt
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Out with the old, in with the new
Chimborazo : as far as you can goI spent the other evening in a very enjoyable fashion, at a real ale pub in Harrogate (The Swan on The Stray, for the record) in the company of a Richard Fountain, who's about to embark on an epic adventure. Richard's…
Yorkshire Sculpture Park revisitedHere's my Jaygo taken on 'The Walk of Art' On the [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2003/2003-11-16-373|16th of November 2003]] and again last Sunday. We were in the area so decided to visit the 500 acre art park…
As You Like it - Abbey Shakespeare 2012Photo taken by, and published with kind permission of Stephen Whitehead Pictured above - my boys (front, centre) in the final scene of this years Abbey Shakespeare Players production of "As You Like It" directed by…
- Wales was ace, again.
Just a quick post to note that we're now back from a fantastic week in Wales. Lived at Poppit Sands for a week, appeared in a Shakespeare play and fell out of a coracle into a mill pond. All brilliant. Flat out at work.…
- Left to my own devices..
Well - I've got an Elsie dog to keep me company, but Eirene and the kids have gone to Dublin for the week. Party out in the sticks was the main event of my weekend. A lovely bash with food n dogs n kids n bands n DJs.…
Harrogate based weekendA weekend where not much happened, but lots has happened. It kind of started on Thursday evening with a fire bin in our back yard, with a few lovely peeps. We had relatives staying with us for a few days which was nice.…
Jaygo's 11th birthdayMonster breakfast.
Digging InstagramSo I've gotten hooked on (yet another) social network. Instagram. I love taking photos and have often invested unhealthy volumes of time experimenting and attempting to make photos look different - eg…
Wedding on the WharfeIn all the 6 years or so I've been driving across The Wharfe every work-day, I don't think I've ever seen it quite as full as it was on Friday. Fi and John's wedding was the next day, at The Red Lion in Burnsall - right…
Lizzie in CambodiaLizzie ticks a lot of boxes for this Adventure Shirt Shot ; ✓ A new country (Cambodia) ✓ Iconic background (Angkor Wat, Siem Reap) ✓ She's wearing the shirt, not just holding it ✓ It's at a UNESCO World Heritage Site ✓…
FamilyEarlier on, I helped Felix make this collage thing for a school project. It's a pretty good snapshot of what's what round these parts. Speaking of snapshots, we've just watched Britain In A Day - a moving mash-up of a…
Ben and Claire hit the Wild WestGood T-Shirt Adventuring! Ben and Claire took a DragonDrop Adventure Shirt , hired a massive V8 and drove around the good bits of West USA. Here's a few pics from their adventure, featuring Ben (top) Yosemite National…
- DragonGate Photo Slideshow
I've been playing with a tool called Snapseed to get this 'look'. I quite like it. I'ts given the whole thing a bit of a dreamlike quality. It all does feel like a bit of a dream now though. haahhh Thanks to Rob B for…
Docking Bay 94StarWars fans should instantly recognise the above as the place where The Millennium Falcon was parket at Mos Eisley Space Port before she set off. Well - technically, this isn't Docking Bay 94, it's Western Sunderland…