Introducing the newest members of the world famous DragonDrop Adventure Club . **Louise & Skip, Taj Mahal, India January 2013 ** Skip & Louise, Kochi Stadium, India 2013 (India v England ODI) Top adventure by the look…
DD365
The ‘DD365’ Category is all about me trying to do a post every day throughout 2013 starting Jan 1. I’m going to try not to make it too “Here’s a blog about my lunch” but I can’t guarantee it’ll be entirely lunch free.
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Taj Mahal and Kochi Cricket Stadium
DragonFly Tattoo EP LaunchThere's one constant quality of art that's hard to describe. Originality. There isn't a readily available frame of reference because no one has done what they are doing before. This can either mean original 'crap',…
Virgin snowThis snap is of our backstreet last night amidst a fresh fall of snow. The Council turn off a lot of minor road streetlights of an evening now for a few hours which I like. Saving energy, yea but it also its nice to…
A corporate do at the MajSpent an evening in the beautiful Hotel Majestic Harrogate last night. I was taking photos of a corporate awards do and after party and helping out my mate Allan with a bit of tech. Free steak and bar was quite a draw.…
- Dream Raving
Just been in a dream where I was at a rave. On the fringe part, near a bar with some benches and people. I took the part of an older dude where the younglings asked me about raves of old. Megadogs and Manchester I told…
- Way back when...
[[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2003/2003-01-15-204|As this blog post reports]], my son Felix started school 10 years ago today. He's changed a fair bit since this blogs started. So has pretty much everything…
Procrastination Elf and the Final VersionAbout 3 years ago, [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2010/2010-01-31-id-become-curious-with-the-phrase-life-hacking|I'd become curious with the phrase 'Life Hacking']]. My life is pretty full, what with nearly 4…
Yorkshire puddingsRound at a friends house concluding a challenge we set each other a year or so ago. Mike said his Yorkshire Puddings were better than mine, and I said mine were better than his. The only way to settle this, thought we,…
- keys
Stood in Currys PC world type shop testing out a bluetooth keyboard. I'm thinking about tooling up so field blogging isn't a fiddly affair of phone screen based keyboard. Have to say I'm not mega impressed with this…
Lomo and booksIts the weekend (hoopla!). Friday night and I've just accomplished the fixing of a camera. Inspired by my post 'shoots some film' from a few days ago, I dug out two 35mm cameras. The Smena 8M on closer inspection was…
Shoot some filmMy mate Skip, with a film camera When I was a early to mid teen, photography used to be my #1 passion in life, it's still fairly high up there. A conversation at lunch today reminded me about something that I've long…
RIFE RADIOSo, I've had this project bubbling away for a few months now. Myself and a friend DJ a weekly radio show. I've not talked about it at all on DragonDrop so far. I guess I'd been waiting till it hit critical mass -…
TrossachsI like living in this day and age. The lifestyle benefits and technical trappings really are quite marvelous. I can transport my family to a different country for a weekend without too much bother. It really does tickle…
Quick trip north of the borderPopped up to Scotland. The south Trossachs, in the MacDonald Forest Hills Hotel and Resort on the banks of Loch Ard to be specific. It's very nice. We've got a lodge who's best feature is a view up the Loch, which this…
Clicky click clicky clicketySat outside a supermarket waiting for wife and daughter to forage. The car is silent apart from a very faint clicking noise emitted from the two boys. Both of them have blanket / dressing gowns over their heads to stop…