There's always the rhetoric around this time of year that Christmas has lost its magic and that it has gotten far too commercial for its own good. I must admit, that compared to when I was a kid (and Christmas was the…
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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Christmas kick-off
Busy ol' weekendSqueezed a huge amount of activity into this weekend. Friends over on Friday - Cranium was the name of the rather good fun game we played. Part charades, part pictionary, part trivial pursuits, part call my bluff type…
It's a pink oneDespite the risk of being caught for contravening NHS NO PHOTO protocol, I risked this clandestine photograph of Eirene receiving her 20 week scan (21 to be specific) for the sake of content for dragondrop.org. All is…
- The sourest sweets in the world.
Embedded video I tried one of these - the taste - somewhere between battery acid and 1000 lemons. Awful level set to extreme hostile . Naturally, I wanted to let my kids experience them...Here's the video of them…
Quick Dublin visitSo we had a quick trip to Dublin at the weekend. Many birds with a single stone. Hanging out with a bunch of friends from England - Henry (from recent…
Jam dayEirene made a batch of hedgerow jam With freshly picked this morning fruit. Blackberry crabapple rosehip & elderberry to be specific. Bramble jam. Hedge in a jar. Lovely. The blackberries in particular seem to be a bit…
Hymn for her and meIv'e just had a birthday. A stupendous day where I coincidentally picked up a new (to me) car, had the day off work to spend with my fantastic wife and went out for a meal. What I thought was going to be a nice steady…
Elsie is 1 and storifyIt's this beautiful girl's 1st birthday today. I shot this, this morning (the photo - not the dog). I've discovered this great little tool called Storify. I've used to to build a story of Elsie's first year. It's kind…
Camping at Bobbybee'sSpent the best parts of Saturday and Sunday at Bobbybee's campsite near Filey. We've been to Bobbybee's [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2011/2011-09-27-last-camping-mish-of-the-season|once]]…
I think we're gonna need a bigger boatYep, we're having another! We've already got 3 beautiful kids and in some ways, we seem to be getting the hang of this parenting malarkey. We're certainly getting good at pretending we're good at it anyway. We'd talked…
First Day (Back)First day back for mine today after a tip top summer holiday. How the time flies. It's Jay's first day in Secondary school today. I think he's most looking forward to the canteen (that's my boy). Here they are shortly…
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…
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…