I still think flickr is on of the best things on the interwebs. It encourages people to look at things and share what they are looking at. It's a fantastically designed system of information with it's main interface,…
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36 Faves- Jo Rigatoni
Went to Jo Rigatoni's restaurant in Harrogate last night. An old favorite. It's the most family friendly grown up restaurant we know. Top notch food and service. I was teaching Jaygo how to do the 'catching the waiters…
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…
Mannequin ChallengeSlap bang down town Harrogate, two guys have all of a sudden found themselves more famous that Rudy (sorry - Harrogate in joke). In a very convincing bid to raise shed loads of money for St. Michaels Hospice, these guys…
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…
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…
Deershed Festival 2011 ReviewI’ve been to a vast array of festivals from the biggest to the smallest and met pretty much all walks of festival life. My first festival was Reading ’94 and from then, I’ve probably done at least one festival per year…
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…
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…
DragonDrop - as seen on TVApparently, A DragonDrop Adventure Shirt has already been on TV during a cricket match in India when it's wearer, Jim, was carried around the ground at shoulder height for being the only non Indian in the ground. Or so…
- 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…
Spotify PlaylistsA screenshot of my Spotify - one of my favourite applications of all time. When someone asks me "what is Spotify ?" I answer "An application that gives you any song you want within one second." And whilst that's not…
The Fat BadgerFriday saw me and a friend popping out to a brand new pub in Harrogate. The Fat Badger on Cold Bath Road. I'd seen some noise on twitter about it along with rumour that it was a VIP ticket only launch. The power of…
War of the teasI live in Harrogate, home of Betty's and Taylors of Harrogate. They make the Yorkshire Tea. We drink Yorkshire Tea nowadays. I've liked a few other teas - Ringtons Gold…