DIY (Nesting)

When I first started this blog, I thought and I hoped that it would be mostly reporting on my surf sessions, however once again the weekend shows a poor effort on the waves front. At least I got in on Friday!

So as you can see by the photos I have spent the day screwing wood, I have made a pretty neat shoe storage, put some more modulisation into the built in wardrobe in the spare room, built the babies set of draws (Wardrobe to follow) and re-arranged the surf shed. Wetsuits are now at the back with the boards in the middle, I only use two suits at a time and the rest were getting in my way so it works a lot better i've chuck Beck's sponge and the spare sponge in the back too!

So I would say a weekend of diy due to the poor surf but my neighbours are telling me it nesting! I'm not sure either way maybe a bit of both, you decide for yourself!

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The cornish gate

I was planning on going to Widdy or N.Devon, but when I was talking about it at work one of the other Engineers asked if I was going near Launceston, not one to miss this opportunity I decided to take to diesel money do a 5 min site visit and go on to Watergate! I was expecting it to be pretty big and half expected to have to head to the bay, however it looked like it was 5ft max on the sets, the report on MSW said 10ft faces and a monster paddle.
Well they got the monster paddle right, not to get out put just to stay still, the swell dropped through the session and the wind swung around which was pretty annoying, I got stuck in a rip over on the right as the tide was coming in against the rocks so I decided to do the walk of shame before I got stuck, I hate doing the walk of shame! Got out back again pretty quick though so should have just done it earlier.
I had met Block-o there but ended up missing each other most of the session, should have gone to specsavers! It was good to get some decent sized waves for a change even though it wasn't particularly a good session. O well shit 2010 of surf goes on, it is warmning up though!

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Mountain Biking

So once again the surf was none existent, so I met Jim (Who's B'day it was) and Dunc on the canal yesterday morning as they were rowing to Turf Lock, I did a bit of coaching on the bike and running along side! It did make me miss the rowing but that's only because there's no surf!

We then had lots of cake and coffee at Lutzy's (Highly recommended cafe on the quay), then went up on Haldon for a spot of mountain biking. It has been a while since I've been up there, too long I suppose, and much to my disgust it turns out the Forestry Commision have wrecked all the runs and replaced them with their own (I guess safe) version, but they are really quite rubbish, we did the red run, it now has big white rocks right at the side of the track that mean you can't get any speed up unless you're technical enough. I ended up ploughing straight over the top of one which gave me an instant flaty which meant I stacked it around the next bend so now both my shins have a few more cuts and lumps!

We did make it into town and to Timepiece that night which was a laugh followed by an anemic chicken burger at the golden arches. Been feeling it today but had an awesome full english at a cafe/shed on Budleigh Salterton beach in the sun and a steady walk along the river, very steady!

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Desperate

This year is really getting quite desperate, so desperate in fact that Nick and I went in at Fistral last weekend when the surf was about a foot and messy and there was a long wait between each set! I really am getting quite frustrated with the lack of weekend surf at the moment, normally this time of the year i'd have managed 15 or so sessions instead i've been 4 and 2 of those sessions were bad. It's funny because I often spend a lot of time thinking about what new board I would like to try next and what board I'd sell to buy it, this year I haven't thought about it at all I just want to go for a decent surf, so surf gods if your really exist please help! I'm loosing the will! On the plus side it'll soon be possible for evening surfs!

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