It’s could be considered a ‘bit of a risk’ going camping in September – but when isn’t it in these fair isles? I love the summer (it’s my favourite day of the year) but don’t shy away from camping ‘off season’. We’ve…
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Budle Bay for a couple of days
Limetree Festival 2011Limetree this year ticked pretty much all the boxes and then some. Textbook festival fun. Having had a few pre festival jitters enhanced by last minute unknowns - within minutes of arriving, I'd discovered that some…
King Lear at St. Dogmaels Abbey - biased reviewI say biased because my boys were in it. Having said that, if I'd gone as a pure 'punter' I would have loved it. This year marked the 25th Anniversary and the final night marked the 100th performance for The Abbey…
Holiday snapsPembrokeshire Coastal Path , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Here we are on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, en route to the Witches Cauldron - a fantastic swim through cave to a secret beach. More snaps»
2 minute summaryWe've been in Wales. Mainly camping at Poppit Sands (pictured above), exploring North Pembrokeshire, Cardigan and an involvement in King Lear at St. Dogmaels Abbey (the boys were in it). More to follow on those bits. In…
Jaygo is 10At the weekend we headed out to to top left hand corner of Yorkshire to celebrate Jaygo's 10th birthday. We wanted to make it brilliant for him - regular readers will know he's had a rough old time this year. I think I…
Harrogate International Festival CinemaCasablanca , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . You must remember this scene from Casablanca.. ? no? It was 8pm, Sunday evening in Harrogate. Daren, aka @paint_Monkey defined the moment by taking the Cuban bit by the…
some summerAfter a false start in April where we had a pseudo summer for a week, this weekend we most certainly had a bit of summer. Well - yesterday at least - was hot, blue skies, happy days. We had a party / fire bin / bbq type…
Toronto DragonDrop AdventureJohn, aka 'Bampa' has just submitted this photo for the DragonDrop Adventure T-Shirt Gallery . Two first; 1./ the first DD shirt shot from Canada, 2./ The first time a DD shirt has ever been worn tucked in. You can see…
- A59 at Blubberhouses
So I drive from Harrogate to a town just west of Skipton (and back) every day. Closing the A59 to work on landslip prevention for 5 weeks is fair enough (even though it's the 3rd year running they've done it). I can…
- Bobbybees and lost photos
Lovely weekend slightly tarnished today by loosing all my photos from it - either human error or some weird thing happened when I tried to upload them from my phone to dropbox. This has never happened to me before as…
The Trip tripYesterday a accompanied a colleague on a road trip. He's writing a piece on TV's "The Trip" (2010 starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.). If you've not seen The Trip - it's good - they tour the North of England for a…
Felix in a Sinclair C5Felix in a Sinclair C5 , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Superb day yesterday. They have changed all of Jays meds - no more anti biotics for a start - resulting in a whole 8 hour gap between meds - which the staff…
Healing handsJaygo at Nelson Mandela Gardens, Leeds , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . I didn't really realise how close to Leeds city centre the infirmary was. We had popped up the fantastic roof garden here yesterday - and…
Our initialsOur initials , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Came home from a weekend in the hospital to find that two lovely friends had done a garden make over for us. New flowers, mended bench, solar lights a little bee and…