Surfstock!!!

Tickets are now on sale for Surfstock, 29-30 August at St Agnes. The lineup includes The Gossip, Supergrass, the Go! Team and The Likes with 60+ acts on four stages. There’s also the Cult Energy Drink Tag Team Surf Challenge and Tow-At Challenge with a £10,000 prize purse (the largest in the UK). This year’s festival also includes the first annual Surfstock H30 British Big Wave Awards in association with CARVE magazine, with six categories and £3500 prize money. Surfstock ticket holders will vote for the Surfer Of The Year and Photo Of The Year. Tickets and more info available from www.surfstock.co.uk at £80 (including two nights camping). Kids under 14 go free! To enter the Tag Team Challenge, register your team of four as soon as possible: crewchallenge@surfstock.co.uk.

beer

Six warm beers, one pot of cold water and ice, 2 cups of salt = cold beers in 3 minutes. So why doesn't sea water chill beers in 2 minutes? Well, I'll try it out anyway.

Can you tell I'm missing beer and seawater? Bacteria:

goody

I just got a payrise!! Not huge but guess what I'm going to buy myself as a congratulations pressie? If you can't guess you've never read this blog before.

Hoping the winds go good for Saturday. Sunday I won't be in any fit state.

Glasto was amazing. If there was a beach nearby I'd never leave those fields (that doesn't make sense).

Oh, and the nose will be fixed in Feb by a very nice ENT surgeon who thought me a very good candidate.

beeeeer

I found a bottle-opener ring on the beach the other day, while watching the surf and wishing I could get in it. Will do this weekend. Meanwhile, this vid is in honour of all the beer that will be drunk in Newquay on this Run To The Sun Bank Hol weekend. I am running to Woolacombe area to hide from it (obv I love the idea, just not the chavs that come with it).

Soundtrack to my Friday at work (and it's only 11.30am): "Oi oi oi!" [sirens] "Fuck off!" [screams from fairground ride opposite my office] [dixie horn] "oi oi!" [dwf dwf dwf car stereo] and so on…

doga

Doga
Aww…and also, Americans are completely hatstand.

Super excited, have contacted the coach I want to coach and video me, please please don't be too expensive (but I know he's good). Trying out a quad for our wonderful summer waves, 9/10 shapers agree they kick ass. Credit card? Yep. Then Edenism for some hedonism, Rairbirds and Tom Middleton (alt Rootjoose and Aphex Twin).

new phrase

If it swells, ride it - seen on a car sticker by Laurz. Love it.

Not much to ride today but going for a Fistral paddle anyway in a bit.

Have decided to have cheerleader theme for birthday - never seen it in Newks, allows short skirts, glitter and legwarmers and general silliness. People who don't want to act like a child can just wear a skirt and tshirt, so everyone should be happy.

anticipation

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

Had the best surf at Fistral this morning! It looked big by the one person in, but the Bay was small and I’m sick of the Bay it sucks…So despite our looming deadlines I fucked work off and shot down there at 8. Only two others out though a few more joined us; a nice three feet or so (the odd eek! one) with discernable peaks, hardly a breathe of wind and warm sunlight.

Caught a good first wave, a steep left. Couple of others, one nice right which just wasn’t long enough. Hit the bottom really hard on another steep left takeoff and got thrown around. Suit is too warm, might need a 4/3 for this globally-warmed land.

Didn’t want to get out but things to do! Work, lots of! Editor ‘was really impressed’ with a piece of mine, stoked, and I have been given responsibility for another regular piece (not rocket science but I shall stamp myself all over it all right).

Planning sunset cocktails at the Headland Hotel (oh, get us!) then home to change and gather the troops around a large bottle of vodka, one of cider and my offering of Stella. (Rach’s last night out, and she’s getting over-excited already!) I am thinking of a very small brown skirt with boots and t-shirt. Then a little dancy-dance in Walky, Bedouin Soundclash are pretty funky! And lots of chat as everyone who matters will be there! ;-) Abs, Laurz, Rach, the Irie lot, Mark and co…oh and the boss, but she’s seen me druuunk before.

All in all an excellent day so far, and to come. And Slut2 is in the garage being tarted up by VW lovers.