Moving to a new country feels more like a new book than a new chapter. We're bound to have several chapters within the book. I'm past page one now but still in the preface. It feels like I've been here longer than 11…
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DragonDrop Adventures: Book 2
100 AcquaintancesIn my last blog post, I described a project called 100 strangers, and how I've embarked on the quest to get photos of 100 strangers. I'm toying with the idea of the same kind of thing, but for 100 acquaintances. Perhaps…
Titus SaltToday we went to one of our fave indoor places in Yorkshire. Salts Mill, Saltaire in Shipley. Titus Salt who built the place in the middle of the 1800s was quite an amazing fella. Whilst a lot of his contemporaries were…
Lovely lovely NYE partyA last minute party that went through several different phases. A party that had about two pregnant ladies and 2 unpregnant ladies, 6 young men, 7 middle aged men a Sophie and a dog. Phase 1 : heavy snacking Phase 2 :…
LadyfingersWe were lucky enough to be invited to the UK premier of what turned out to be a funny, heart warming short film called Ladyfingers. The venue was fascinating; The Wharfe Chambers in Leeds. Stories of_ moles going…
Saw some deer, made a box.Went for a walk at the weekend with some friends. Harewood area. Felix was down in London village, visiting friends so our walk was en route to destination Leeds to pick him up on the Sunday. We were lucky enough to see…
Double helping of artWe experienced two incredible and quite unique pieces of Yorkshire Art this weekend. The first being in the form of a play at Harrogate Theatre on Friday night. The Lighthouse on Shivering Sands. Adapted from a short…
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…
Dales and Hills and HatsI pretty much squeezed my whole weekend into one day. I was up at the crack of dawn and deep in in the Dales first thing on Saturday - dropping Jaygo off for a Scout challenge called Tohunga. Whilst I was in the area I…
Atomic Jam reminded me that I ♥ TechnoAt the weekend Eirene and I along with a collective of 10+ other people convened in Birmingham to join several thousand other people in The Q Club for the last ever Atomic Jam there. Back in the mid 90's, Eirene and I…
SurprisesEirene took me on a surprise weekend away last weekend, and a very nice weekend it was. It's been a while since we spent the weekend, sans kids. We did take the smallest of our brood with us though - Elsie (pic'd above)…
Talking headCompletely out of the blue on Friday afternoon, I got a call from an old friend who was involved with an event in Leeds that needed a photographer as the arranged chap had dropped out. I jumped at the chance, then…
Felix is 13He may be 13 today but I'm pleased to see that he still has this reaction to Jelly Babies originally uploaded by DragonDrop . The big highlight of the now is that we’ve got a teenager all of a sudden. Felix has turned…
L.S. Lowry. Artist of the peoplePerhaps his broad appeal and accessibility is behind the fact that he has not only a gallery honoring his name, but a theatre, a car park and a shopping centre also. I'd had "take family to the Lowry, Manchester" on my…
Sage Bistro for our wedding anniversaryEirene, my lovely wife of 11 years yesterday morning asked where I thought we should go for our wedding anniversary meal. I immidiatly brought out the big guns: "William & Victoria? Drum & Monkey?" The text thread went…