I've been photoblogging through instangram. This city is so photogenic. I've seen a really amusing phenomenon though - heavyweight selfie errors. Selfie's are huge here for some reason - I've never seen as many people…
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- Duburbia
DragonDrop Adventures: Book 2Moving 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…
DragonDrop Adventure T-Shirt Club: DubaiDragonDrop Adventures T-Shirt Shot I've not counted recently, but I think the DD T Shirt adventure club gallery is close to 100 now. Here's the latest installment; me standing near the foot of the worlds tallest…
Felix up the Eiffel Tower then and now.In 2003 Felix went on a school trip and went up the Eiffel tower. He had a word famous DragonDrop Adventure Club T Shirt on. Earlier this month, he went off on his own (well, with 3 friends) and re created the shot. He…
Marske-by-the-SeaWhat a great spot Marsk-by-the-Sea beach is. It's an overlooked stretch of beach - the maddening crowds head for the Rock Stars of that area - Whitby, Scarborough and the like (which I'm not knocking, very nice.. but)…
Intense two weeksThis last two weeks have been amongst the most intense two weeks of my life. I've either been busy, drinking or asleep. Here's a checklist of what I've done. • Delivered a talk in front of 100+ mostly strangers on my…
A bunch of photosFilm is ace. You drop it off, you wait a bit and then the joy of opening the results for the first time are way better than seeing the results instantly on a digital back. Mostly. As well as that, the results are often…
- Brass tastic
M'colleague's husband plays bass trombone in the Hade Edge Brass Band . They were playing today in the Band Stand, Wetherby. We wandered along on the wind of wondering if the 'come along' suggestion would come good. It…
- San Francisco DragonDrop Adventure
It's my first trip to San Francisco, but I'm not the first adventure club member to visit. Fionn was here 13 years ago (as you can see near the bottom of this DDAC archive ). I re created his shirt shot by standing at…
- I'm currently 36023 feet above Greenland
This reminds me of how amazed I was the first time I managed to photo blog to DragonDrop.org without the use of a cable attaching my keyboard to a wall somehow. 13 years ago, I 'field blogged a photo' (from an actual…
Well that was scaryAs I was driving down the A1M this morning, I saw the car in front of me (the silver one, mine is the black one) slowly drift off the road, then it looked like the driver was wrestling with it to get it in a straight…
- Solar eclipse
This morning Matt and I watched the sun eclipsing up at the quad, a patch of grass in the middle of the pine woods another top of Harlow hill. Back in 1999 Matt proposed to me up at the quad at eleven minutes past…
New playground at Grove Road SchoolOften when Grove Road School comes up in conversation, a comment that frequently crops up, is the lack of a grassy area in the playground. Parents want their children to have access to a green space during playtime. It…
- Rainbow
Sophie, Annie and I spotted a gorgeous rainbow on the way home today.
- Toy library outdoor fun
Annie and her friend Ozzie had a wonderful time at Harrogate and Knaresborough Toy Library's outdoor play session. At £3 a session they really are very good value. The sun shone and it was the perfect day to spend some…