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Clay Marzo – The Comeback from Heavy Mayo on Vimeo.

I’ve lost a stone since Christmas. How come I’m still crap?

No sooner had I blathered on about how the good and consistent and generally amazing the surf has been and whad’ya know. The SW’s rear up and blow the beach back to its normal winter time chaos.
And, yes, I’m back to referring to it as winter again. The beginning of summer is being heralded by rain, mizzle and a host of other words that describe dampness.

Footie has been cancelled for the last two weeks – a consequence of getting knocked out of all the cup competitions in the first round – and it looks like this week the pitch will be waterlogged. Still, at least I can catch up with some work.

Flats are finally finished (well, all but one) so it’s time to concentrate on the surfing again. This summers stock is due to arrive this week and there are a hell of a lot of wetties and clothing that need unpacking, pricing up and putting on the shelves.
The new website is due to go online in the next week or so as well. It looks like an absolute beauty in the design stage, hopefully it will work as good as it looks. Fingers crossed.
Busy, busy, busy.

So winter has finally drawn to a close and the heady days of summer are fast closing in. Shame no one told the weather that as for the first time in about two weeks its gone cold and the sun has been obscured by mist.
The real boon of the last few weeks has been the swell though. Its hasn’t been monstrous but its been clean almost everyday and small summer like swells have been rolling through. Just have a gander at our Facebook page and Twitter feeds for documentary evidence.

The other benefit has been seeing people enjoying the beach once again with a bit of sun on their backs. Of course most of them have been wearing woolly hats but if you can find a little sun-trap somewhere I reckon you could almost get a tan.
Maybe.
As for me I am just killing time while someone brings some kit they have hired back to the shop then I am getting in the sea to make the most of the extra hour.
Lovin’ it.

Just outrageously warm today. Even the howling easterly wind was hot and that just never happens. This time a couple of years ago we had a really early Easter. I think it fell in mid to late March but it was one of the coldest Easters ever. A few hardy souls came for surfing lessons back then and still went in despite snow and thoroughly inclement conditions but I actually felt sorry for them.
This March has been altogether more clement. The water is still blooming cold mind.

Hope the budget worked out well for you today, apparently I will get £45 extra over the coming year. That may just about cover a fortnight of fuel price rises. The best part of the budget for me was forcing two 17 year olds who I was taking surfing to listen to the full George Osborne budget speech on Radio 4. Perhaps the worst kind of punishment that any 17 year old could take. Although they listened with good grace they did raise their eyebrows over the extra £100m (could have been £200m so don’t quote me) that George has granted the nation for fixing potholes. One of them also observed that the jeering in the background of the House of Commons just made the politicians sound like junior school pupils.
Wisdom beyond their tender years.

Check out this bad boy. Might be interesting when it comes out.