Born and bred in the South West - that's where I got my bearings. An affinity with South and West is something I've always taken for...

Day off work! However I'm ill in bed. The mind wants to go out and do stuff, try to make the most of this little window of opportunity -...

Digging Charley Harper.

Every now and then our 10 year old daughter Tyde will produce a small white cube from her pocket and holding it up between her fingers...

Was good if you were in the right spot... (Clicky piccy to go big)

Sam Bleakley is a multiple British and European surfing champion, has a Masters in Geography from Cambridge and competed on the Oxbow WLT fo...

At the Chapel of Love. One of my favourite places for evening worship, particularly on a Summer's Sunday night after all the weekenders ...

A great finish to last year along with a good start to this one. So twothousandandeleven is upon us. It seems a little late for New Year wis...

Live forever. A fortune teller, a bounty hunter. Always looking, always anticipating, trying to predict. A wave is something already begun b...

To you one and all.

Flat today. But swell on the way hopefully...

Detroit by David Byrne. The amazing David Byrne Journal is always well worth a visit. This is a typical account from a visit he makes to D...

A few more pixels from the hard-drive archive. View. Arrr! Tech Deck Sesh. Frozen water. Dog fob - no eyes. Exit strategy. Breakfast of cham...

Lost a leg... But he still rips!

Ginger & Honey Tea. I think I'm addicted to this stuff, I find myself glugging down at least a cup every night. Packs quite a punch ...

Surf Jumble in Bude this weekend - might be a good place to find that quirky Xmas prezzy...

That's why they call it the Pipeline. There's a whole world of waves out there, and amazingly still more are being discovered every ...

Most of the time I'm kicking a pair of Vans... For at least half of the year - it's flip-flops... And then in the winter I stomp aro...

The bucket where I normally rinse out my wetsuit. After a brief thaw on Sunday, we're back to zero again this morning...

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Temps haven't risen above zero for 6 days now.

Whichever way you are going you are going wrong. Many moons ago, when I had endless time on my hands and a pocketful of loose change I came ...

Not Delirium tremens, but some serious Diamond Tail love. Between surfs, me and DL probably spend way too much time talking surfing and a l...

A simple trick.

Deadlines.

Sunlight on glass.

Tris sticker. Spotted this in the carpark at PT last week on Andy's van, I've posted about Tris before. This is a different version...