I was lucky enough to do a lot of my favourite activities over the past 5 days or so. Thursday - went to watch the cricket at Headingley with a lovely bunch of people. 'My' team (Yorkshire) won one of it's key matches…
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Cricket, Lindley Woodstock and Tin- Football and fish fingers
At my mate Henry's house - got the afternoon off work. Watching Argentina v South Korea - currently 2-1 to the Americans. Henry, who's just decided he's a vegetarian who's now allowed to eat fish because Dean Karnazes…
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.
- Golf
I played my first ever game of golf last night on a proper golf course. Well - a 9 hole course if you can class that as proper, a very nice course called Ghyll Golf Club near Skipton - for the sake of this blog, I'm…
- Cat's away
I've been left to my own devices this weekend. Eirene stayed at her dads for a few more days. Missing them all massively now. It’s the longest I've ever been away from them for 10 years. I have however had a rather good…
- Ashes
A big thanks to Ed for sending over the fantastic guide to the Ashes suppliment. As you can imagine, I'm really looking forward to tomorrow (and the following couple of months of said game). Just got myself psyched up…
- Mini Bongo
Firstly - congrats to Mr and Mrs Bongo on the birth of their new baby girl! Welcome to the world Emily! x Last week I attempted to watch the cricket at Headingley with it's new fancy pants drainage system that does not…
- Sponsor Henry
Sponsor Henry! Good friend of DragonDrop Henry is doing some silly volumes of running in aide of Unicef and the Gaza children's fund. He ran the Leeds half marathon (pt1) last weekend, This weekend he's doing the…
- Sponsor Henry Morris!
My mate Henry is running the Great North Run next Sunday - 13 miles. He's looking for sponsorship - he's got one of those easy to donate 'justgiving' sites (secure etc.) and he's running in aid of Leonard Cheshire…
BBSBig Beach Sports for the wii gets an official two thumbs fresh. Since the wii came out I've been hankering after a cricket game for the wii. I'm not the olny one - there's been forums and websites campaigning for…
Watching the cricketWatching cricket. The australian (v india ) boxing day test. Very nice setting !
- Simon's Seat
A weekend packed with physical activity. On Saturday Felix and I hiked up Simon's Seat in Wharfedale with some of Felix's cub scout friends. Most of the hiking we've done recently, I've had Sophie on my back in her…
Disk golf, originally uploaded by DragonDropDisk golf , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Half way through a disk golf match.
Best Mannedthe last few seconds of vapourtrails un married life , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Significantly, since my last blog, I had the honour of being a best man for Simon and Caroline Last Friday at Ripley Castle. A…
Our garden...Our garden... , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . ..For the weekend. At centrerparks sherwood forest. Superb villa, all 3 bairns are off doing activity, I've got the cricket on (currently getting england are sliding…