We went to a wine tasting event yesterday at The Crown hotel hosted by Harrogate Fine Wine and their suppliers. 70 wines to have a go on, all of a very high standard. I experimented with whites (normally a red man)…
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- Judging a book by its cover
Word CupApparently, there's a football world cup starting soon. Quite like this funny that good did.. do a search for 'World Cup' in google and scroll down to the bottom.
- Off line all of the time.
I have been off line most of this weekend and most of Friday. Not as a result of a lifestyle decision but as a result of technical gremlins. I couldn't figure it, tech support couldn't figure it and it annoyed. It's…
5000th photo5000th photo , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . This is my 5000th photo on flickr. A fairly random selection but I quite like. "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." - Henri Cartier-Bresson. I'm half way to…
- Harrogate police at 1 in the morning
What a carry on. Police at 1 in the morning. Having a bit of a sleep (something I do from time to time as a bit of a treat) when trouble kicks off in the flat next door to our bedroom. Shouty fighty angry trouble. (Not…
- DragonDrop Adventure Shirts from around the world
Alison just sent me a link to a slide show she's made of shots featuring a DragonDrop Adventure shirt. I'll add some into the main shirt shot gallery soon - but for now.. Click here to view 'em>>
- The superbosity of VOTE FIRE
The superbosity of VOTE FIRE was champion-o-rama. It was busy from the outset – a few things were happening in town but not as much competition as there has been recently – before too long our spies were reporting that…
Goldwings - are they cool or not?We went to a friends birthday bash yesterday. All very lovely. It's been a similar format for the past n years, but every year there seems to be a lot more kids! Sun was shining, meat on the barby, kids spent hours…
Goggles and PandaAfter a the recent sad departure of Fiona, Sid and Lemon Bun Just got a couple of new pet fish. We've called this Lion Head 'Goggles' and we got another fish - a baby Panda Oranda - currently about 2cm long. We've got a…
- Wordpress, RIP Blogger?
Well - after the unmitigated pain in the harris that google caused by ceasing to support FTP, my hitherto unyielding loyalty has been re aligned and I've plumped for a wordpress solution to run dragondrop.org. Very…
ScotlandHaving major problems with DragonDrop - going to dump the rough notes of this for now and tidy it up as I go along... A while ago I'd mused that I'd like to explore Scotland and thanks to some freebies through work it…
- Horseface - The Movie
Me, starring in 'Horseface - The Movie'.
BonfireSpotty Brolly 2 , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Just uploaded a bunch of photos from the Fireworks display on The Stray in Harrogate last weekend. It rained for the entire thing so it made taking photos a bit…
Felix's Birthday Cake24/10/2009 , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . He's 11. That came round quick. The fantastic cake pictured here was a wholeheartedly chocolaty number, featuring the word FELIX. It didn't take long for it to say F_LI…
- DragonGate ’09 write up
Dragongate festival was officially very much fun indeed. After hearing nightmare stories from the crew on site about main stages blowing down, roads in resembling a war zone and a catalogue of other worries, I was,…