Monthly Archives: October 2009

The day the circus came to town…

I’ve not been a huge fan of competition surfing – excessively talented athletes floundering around in crap waves trying to impress a row of slightly tubby ‘used to be’s’ wedged into deckchairs. But things seem to be changing…
The criteria has shifted axis from ‘how many turns we can cram into this wave?’ to ‘how deep?’, [...]

Just because you’re better than me…

…doesn’t mean I’m lazy*.
2009 is drawing to an end – the clouds keep rolling in and the chlorophyll is slowly draining from the deciduous trees across the valley. It’s been a strange summer – a constant battle with ‘awkward’ clients that ended somewhat sourly and abruptly at 4.25 on a Wednesday afternoon. I feel my [...]