Lee Dixon

Yep, their back.... I think all my posts are coming back to just one blog.

So I booked a week off work over the Easter Holidays. Got two days out, and 5 days decorating.....  The first day out was to Blackpool Tower. Not been there in years. It's such a nice building, and the ballroom is lovely, wish we could have spent all day just in that room. Takes me back to when I was a kid and me and my older brother would go with our aunty and uncle who would dance while we just walked around the place..

At the weekend we as a family ran 5k for the Stroke Association. As most of you who have visited my blog before will know my youngest had a stroke over a year ago. He wanted to do something to raise money for the charity that has help him and us with his recovery and understanding what has happened to him.  It was a cold Sunday morning in Blackpool for the run, but with a great turnout and friendly lot we had a warmup and before we knew it we were off. Was a little hard going for me as I haven't done much running in the last few year, but with my eldest son on my shoulder all the way talking about the latest game he is playing it wasn't long before we were on the way to the finish line. :)  Ryan, mum and dog came in not long after at very reasonable times and I am proud of them all for doing it. Eldest Son: 30mins. Me: 34mins. Ryan: 47mins. Mum and Kylo: 50mins. So far we have raised almost £400 with still a few cash donations still to come in. The link is st...

This weekend we had a double adventure....  First stop was Legoland Discovery in Manchester, which is always ok for an hour or two as we are lego made in our house, plus Ryan has now become obsessed with collecting the pop badges and swapping them with the staff..

Another month and another collection of fantastic cosplayers and their creations..  Here are 30 from this month's album with a total of 109 for you to view if you follow the link.

It's that time of year again, Preston Comic Con 2017 has come around. We had booked our tickets well in advance, and glad we did, so many people turned up on the day to stand and wait for tickets to get in......  Anyway this is the second time we have been and this year it had grown a little bit more which is good, still a long way to go to compete with the larger venues that I see online but nice to be there.  Here's a good handful of images that I took, unfortunately I'm having problems with my camera lately and these are the ones that I have managed to crop and edit to share, think it's time to look for a new camera.  Still a good time was had, saw some great cosplay, and the boys picked up some cool custom lego figures which I will have to do a post on.

It was a very busy month August. I guess being part of the school summer holidays helps to make it that bit more busier, but we really didn't stop much at all......  From walks with the dog, car-boot, tenpin bowling, airshow, a tv show recording, fun days out and so much more...

I'm a bit of a fan of Stranger Things being of that age that was the early 80's, all things Goonies, E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind( I know this is more late 70's, but still me). Anyway loved the first season and so looking forward to what they can do with the second.  They have just released 12 character posters.

Well they have been dropping hints that something big was coming for the 1st of September and they were not wrong.....  With 7,541 pieces in total it's the biggest Lego model they have ever sold, but at £650 UK, I don't think it will be making its way to our house sadly.

The last day of August, so a great time to look back at all the cosplay images I have found over this month. As always there are some amazing creations a fantastic takes on some characters. All images and rights are to the photographer and cosplayer, I don’t alter/crop out any detail or names in the images. As I see so many I can not link to all sites, but if you google search an image you will find the source. This is just me helping show off some amazing creations. So here's 30 images that I think are really good from this month's album, but there is a total of 116 in the August 2017 Cosplay Album .

Had a morning visit to  Madame Tussauds Blackpool this weekend. We haven't been in many years so thought it was would be good for an hour or so. Of course it's not on the scale of London's version, but was ok for a walk around and a few pictures. Some of the models are really good, Ed Sheeran, Barbara Windsor, Brian Cox, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise to name a few, but some of them, Cheryl, Sir David Frederick Attenborough, Lewis Hamilton and The Duchess of Cambridge I really struggled with.  Here are the images that I took while walking around.

A little late posting the images I took at the weekend, but better late then never......  Blackpool Airshow was the venue for these. We have been before and enjoyed the show and as its a free, what's not to like. Last time we went the could all stand and sit on the beach, but this time the sea was in so it was a little crowded on the piers and beach front, but still very enjoyable.  The weather stayed nice with mostly clear skies and which made viewing the show much better. I think the pictures came out ok as I only had my little point and shoot Sony RX100 II which is over 5yrs old now.

 Another week and more very cool art by two artist. First up is pixel art computers and video game consoles by Mazeon.  And more here.

Found these two amazing artists on tumblr sometime ago and just had to share some of their work..  The first lot are by  Anthony Petrie  and are of the  Universal Monsters

Well that's it for another month. It's been a busy month for posting and moving back over to blogger from my own hosted site has been a pain, but we made it, and I hope lots of you have followed me across....  Anyway, to the reason you're here, here's 30 of the best random images from this month. Also I have shared July's album for you to view and share total 130 images.

As we are running up to the last few days of July, I thought I would for once be on time if not early with my cosplay monthly post. As some of you will know I have been posting through the month on G+ and filling my July album up (160 images total), and now is the time to post the best finds this month..  As always they excel in their creations, and easily blur the lines of cosplayers and professional costume designers/makers. What's your favourite? As always you can leave a comment below.. M ore can be found in this month's album here.