The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. Very shortly after I met Roisin she gave me a copy of this book to read. Fi...

Vans ad - circa late 70s. Jerry Valdez - the clothing, the 'safety' gear, the board, the colours, the body positioning and o...

G&S Fibreflex - Steve Cathey Model I can remember every single skateboard I've ever had. My first was a cut-off plank nai...

~ ~ ~ I find the majority of modern surf films very boring. The music, the footage, the direction and even the personalities tend to...

The Party's Over - 1982 It's My Life - 1984 The Colour of Spring - 1986 Spirit of Eden - 1988 L...

Paul Schutzer captures the view from a bus window during a Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961.

/// OK I'll admit it - I was dancing the other night, well when I say 'dancing' I really mean shuffling about on the spo...

I quite fancy a little blackbird to keep me company on my next board. I used to have a sticker of a dog on the nose of one of my early...

Dearly beloved... For us, any Saturday could be the best day or it could also be the worst! The best; because it’s the day when we’...

Those nice people over at The Inertia let me do some waffling... Clicky piccy 4 linky

A few days ago the 'Birthday Bush' (Azalea) looked like this. A harsh Summer wind... Now it looks like this :( ...

Summer - makes me wanna watch Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources again.

Standing on the shoulders of giants. Photo courtesy: Joe Cox

"Do as I say, not as I do" is not sustainable.

What you want is not always what you need. Cornwall had always wanted to be Australia, actually it had always wanted to be a mixture...

Books about surfing are a small but burgeoning genre, originally consisting of mainly instructional and location guides, it has now expanded...

Depends on the question... I often come across people describing how they have found themselves through surfing, of how riding the w...

Camp. Brew of choice. The amazing Adrenalin Parc near Moliets. Highly recommended. Iconic Biarritz. This wa...

??? - there could be a mellow righthander breaking just around that corner... We're off on holiday tomorrow - heading South. (...

??? Anyone recognise this famous right point break? Clue: First exposure was in 1966 via a rather famous surf film.

Smiling - an antidote to tussery. Today there was a situation that mirrored the recent tussage incident but the outcome could not h...

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Gou Miyagi.

Old fave. A tee that my friend Patrick Best gave to me many years ago - still a fave!

Went west to Penzance for lunch and a browse... Shimmery. DJ Humph on the mix. ( He invented the Davy Lamp ) Reflected...

??? Anyone recognise this world class setup? Home to one of the best lefts in the Northern hemisphere. And possibly due to host ...

TUSS - good old Cornish insult, all the better for not being used very often. I had a fantastic surf today and I really wasn't e...