What do you do to celebrate your 50th birthday? Have a quiet meal, something sedate. Nothing too noisy. Or you could have a fancy dress party the code being pop stars from the past 50 years and then go paint balling.…
Family
Matt, the main blogger round these parts is patriarch and assistant manager to a rather special family. Other members are: Eirene, patient and beautiful wife and mother to their 4 mini them. Introducing the DragonDroplets: Felix (born 1998), Jaygo (2001) Sophie (2006) and Annie Mo (2013). Augmented with a Labradinger dog (half English Springer, half Chocolate Lab).
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Belinda's 50th birthday
New year aspirations-FelixFelix is 15 and in year ten at school. I was really interested to find out what he felt about the new year ahead. ''My aim is to stay happy by doing pretty much what I did in 2013. I am looking forward to my birthday…
- New year aspirations-Jaygo
Jaygo lives in the here and now, a state many people aspire to. Snuggled up in bed with me this morning I asked him about what he was looking forward to in 2014. He had a really big think and this is his response. ''I…
New year aspirations-Sophie-PiOften at new year people like to reflect on the previous year. This time can be seen as a good opportunity to change the things we aren't happy with and to set goals to improve our everyday life. Ideas range from giving…
- Taking up the mantel
Big Ben chimed midnight. The new year arrived. Matt had completed his 365 mission and we were celebrating with our good friends in Great Ouseburn. A thought niggled at me. What about all the people who read Dragondrop…
365 Project - COMPLETE364.5 Days ago [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2013/2013-01-01-shall-i-try-blogging-every-day-this-year|I launched a project]] to blog every day throughout 2013. Publishing this very post will complete that…
Christmas dayA brilliant Christmas day was had by us. It's now 23:30 so I've not got much time (or energy) to write a blog.. but just to say, today was a lovely, LOVELY Christmas day. Aside from the relatives and friends that we…
- Sticky beak
I like the phrase sticky beak. I first heard it in Nimbin, Australia. It roughly means child with food or snot on face. The other phrase that I heard there was 'slippery dip' meaning slide - as in a slide at a kids…
- 1/4 year to Paddy's day, 1 week 'till Xmas
Annie is 9 months old today. 3/4 of a year, or to put it another way, It's 0.25 years until St. Patrick's day. This evening, we went to see Sophie perform in the Christmas school play and Carol concert. The play was The…
Christmas Concert and nappy sack horrorWe've just got in from watching Felix in concert. He was playing percussion and keyboard with the Harrogate Youth Percussion Ensemble (HYPE) He was good. They were good. They played a version of Clocks that Felix…
BruceThis is Bruce. He's Elsie's best friend. They were born about a week apart from each other and have grown up together. He's half Springer, half Tibetan Terrier. He's ace. Today at lunchtime, we got to take Elsie round…
Residual self imageI've updated my residual self image in the internets. I've updated LinkedIn, Skype and Twitter (prolly got a couple more networks to go, but..) this evening, I updated Facebook with it as my profile pic. I quite like it…
- Sophie's presentation on the play in Wales
Sophie (aged 7) had an assignment from school. She was to make a presentation to give to the rest of her class on any subject of her choosing. The presentation was to last for less than 10 minutes. I helped her with it…
- Parents Evening
Went to Felix's parents evening - the boy dun good! It's his first one we've been to since he started his GCSE's. Very pleased with the feedback we got - he's predicted A in most stuff - even an A Star in one. The only…
10 years agoMonday's eh? They often set out to remove the last vestiges of ones weekend gusto, the erstwhile enthusiasm and creativity generated over the weekend can so easily dissipate, if you're not careful. I don't let them…