otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

Joanne has been hard at work for the past few months. Not only has she been working hard as a freelance graphic designer, she’s spent the last several months creating handmade gifts for practically everyone we know for Christmas. In fact, many of the people who read this blog probably received a bonbah [...]

Sugar Kane is an unabashed ukulele player. She sings an great little ditty about a dancing bear that makes me chuckle each time I listen to it. But SK had a problem. She had a beautiful uke, but nothing to put it in. So she made herself a ukulele [...]

We returned the the Capital Ring today, after a few months off. It was the perfect day for it. It was pretty amazing to be wearing a T-shirt in early February (and a bit disturbing as well).
The highlight of the stage was definitely the dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace. Technically, [...]