I don't know when he got so chatty. Honestly, he talks and talks without end it seems. But, here's the punchline - it's always...

  Social Media - It takes a lot of effort doesn't it? Getting stuff together, learning the lingo, the set-up. Ready for whatever it is y...

  Out on the pushie the other morning and every cyclist that passed in the opposite direction (and there are always plenty of cyclists out e...

  Hong Kong, early 90s. Place had a very serious end-of-the-world vibe.  In a few years time it would be handed back to the People's Rep...

  Rumour of a wave. So I head down to the bay, it's 2 foot and clean, no wind, dropping tide. It's a warm night and a hazy sun gives...

Climbers, mountaineers, alpinists. Surely more on the edge than most. In fact, they often go over the edge, very often fatally. Some of thes...

5 ways you can make your visit to Cornwall a happy one (for everyone else) 1. Don't bother Seriously, just don't come. Nobody really...

I swear it's true - reaching down to pick something up from the ground gets harder and harder every year. Ironic really, given that I...

A beautiful and sunny Saturday morning, clean little waves and no wind.  It's changeover day, which means all the tourists are either pa...

I went for a surf yesterday. First time for over a month, cuz I've been landlocked with an injury. Knee to waist-high waves, sunny and n...

Surfing has revealed my Achilles heel* - or more accurately, my Achilles toe! After a long winter of having to wear boots as a necessity, it...

There was an incident many years ago, not back in the Dark Age (70s-80s), more like in the Middle Ages (90s-early00s), that I clearly rememb...

I've known B for over thirty years.  I can clearly recall seeing B for the first time; a teenager riding a skateboard, blondey brown hai...

I had always imagined that somehow in my autumn years, the natural manifestation of all life's experience and knowledge would magically ...

I've been reading a lot recently about how surfing has many health benefits, both physical and mental. This struck a chord with me.  Alb...

  This photo of me taken by Paul 'Milo' Milsom is from the early 90s maybe some time around 1991ish.   Milo was staying with me in F...

A small blue planet spinning through space.  Whether by devine plan or random chance, this particular planet has exactly the right atm...

Essjay Williams is a bona fide OG Cornish legend. A first generation Truro skate grom, a pioneer 70s park rider, an original West...