We 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…
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Double helping of art
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…
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…
DragonGate Festival 2012What a splendid festival that was. I'll get the hick-ups out the way first up - the main one being the lack of main stage drum kit early doors, having a knock on effect (combined with a couple of other factors * ),…
Graze Nibble BoxI've just had a Graze Nibble Box delivered to my desk at work. A brilliant idea where they post you a box of tasty healthy snacks on days that you specify. They have 100 recipes - you can either have random, or tweak to…
World Book Night day 2012It's World Book Night day today and I'm a giver ([[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2011/2011-03-05-world-book-night|again]]). I've been selected to give away a box full of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is a…
- Henry Blofeld
Henry Blofeld talks about the seasons of his life.. and a bit of cricket. Myself and 3 of my cricket buddies went to see Henry Blofeld at the Harrogate Theatre last Friday. 'Blowers' is a stalwart commentator for the…
The Sun has got his hat onIt's been a cracking few days for sun. Possibly the sunniest March I can ever remember. Note to self - scoot back over the last 10 years archives and see if there's a sunnier memory stashed away. I'ts fairly likely that…
DragonDrop PieI just made this pie. It was ace.
La GrilladeLast night we got to eat at the fantastic La Grillade in Leeds. I’d been there out of the random blue last November to take some photos of Alan Bennett (Photo Set | Blog Post). I remember thinking at the time, as I…
Mush!Snow day on Sunday. Elsie (Springador pup) pulled a sled. A harness (rather than a collar) was attached to to the dog at one end and a sled at the other and hay presto. Sophie loved it. Eislie loved it. She had a job to…
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…
New Adventures in Web Design 2012Last week myself and several hundred web heads converged on Nottingham for New Adventures in Web Design 2012 . I wasn't quite sure what to expect - some very good things had been said about its inaugural year (2011) and…
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)…