Tonight we have enjoyed eating pancakes many different ways. I don't mean upside down or whilst singing 'The birdie song'. I mean taking a step away from the Dragondrop traditional lemon and sugar topping and trying…
Seasons
Several years into keeping this blog, Matt noticed pattern. Annual repetition, largely governed by natural seasonal events or advents within. A commentary of sorts.
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Shove Tuesday- Happy Valentine's day
Happy Valentine's day from everyone here at Dragondrop. I hope you all are having a wonderful day and someone out there has made you smile. Here is a note of 8 things that happened on February 14th in history; 1. 270 -…
St BridgetSt Bridget's day is celebrated in Ireland on February the first, said to be the first day of spring. St Bridget was an abbess is Co.Kildare around 470 ad. She was born to a Christian slave mother and druid father . It…
- Kung hei fat choy- Happy Chinese new year
This new year welcomes the arrival of the year of the wooden horse and says goodbye to the year of the water snake. People born in the year of the horse are said to be animated, active and energetic and love being in a…
- Happy Burns night
Happy Burns night everyone. I hope you all have caught your haggis, distilled your whiskey and are ready for some clootie pudding fun. We are.
365 Project - COMPLETE364.5 Days ago [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2013/2013-01-01-shall-i-try-blogging-every-day-this-year|I launched a project]] to blog every day throughout 2013. Publishing this very post will complete that…
On the shortest day we found a basherBecause my hand held GPS unit (as used for geocaching) knows exactly where it is in the world, it can tell you exactly what time the sun up and sun down in. This morning, I was at N 54° 00.814' W001° 31.395' when I…
- (worky) Year End
Even thought I've still got a few days to go, today was the last 'normal' day of work for me in 'till after the Christmas break. Everyone starts to disappear from now on. It'll be a time for mainly odd jobbery -…
10 years agoMonday's eh? They often set out to remove the last vestiges of ones weekend gusto, the erstwhile enthusiasm and creativity generated over the weekend can so easily dissipate, if you're not careful. I don't let them…
Halloween HaulThere were 8 of us went out trick or treating last night. A formidable force. Sophie did particularly well because; a./ She's a cute one b./ She's good at elbowing her way into the front of her brothers and her brothers…
Clocks and ChestnutsI liked my friend Daren's facebook statement earlier: "Today has mostly been an exercise in being SURPRISED BY WHAT TIME IT *IS/ISN'T! ". Quite. It caught us out - we hadn't a clue. No harm done though - not like the…
Felix is 15Our boy Felix is 15 today. We got him an accordion. What a handsome young man he's turned into. I was thinking - back to when he was a baby and people said "before you know it, he'll be 15 and you won't know where the…
October alreadyOctober is the most transitional of months to me - more so than it's spring counterpart. To Anglo-Saxons, October was known as Winterfylleth, because at this full moon ( fylleth ) winter was supposed to begin. October…
Elsie is 2, Annie Mo is 0.5Exactly 6 months ago today, [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2013/2013-03-18-the-birth-of-annie-mo|I delivered Annie Mo, in our hallway]]. Since then, our little owl has blossomed into a beautiful baby girl.…
- Poised and ready
So that's of the last of the summer wine, ready for Autumn. Flip flops and sandals resigned for the time being, sun hats for wooly hat, nearly gone are the hot days and hot nights. Mushrooms, harvest, mist on the…