Overcoming the Summertime Blues
It feels like summer’s almost here, but along with the spring sunshine, glassy waves and long evenings, something less welcome is emerging from hibernation…
Clare Howdle
Everything’s Fine…
This time last week I thought I was going to die. At least, I was trying to ignore the thought that I was going to die by telling myself everything was fine. Fine. Fine. F-i-n-e…. FULL STORY »
The i-ball report
Forget unreliable surf report websites, frozen webcams and gas guzzling hunts up and down the coastline - there’s a new way of checking the surf. Tweeting.
The Brazilian Paradox deepens
The Brazilian Paradox has got people talking so I thought it would be good to talk back - nothing like a bit of healthy debate. Thanks to Luciano Burin and Drift for giving this topic oxygen…
Ouch!
Autumn swells and sunny weather may be tempting us all out back, but something nasty is still lurking in the shallows…
Rose Tinted
Halcyon days. Summer daze. Our rose-tinted paraphrase for that lustful glaze of memories, praise for a sun that - as the air’s chill picks at our bones - always felt hot, whether or not it shone.
Surf at Work
With A-level results looming, this week’s airwaves have been sagging with the doom and gloom of how hard young people are being hit by the ‘recession’ or as I prefer to call it, (thanks, Charlie Brooker) ‘moneygeddon’. FULL STORY »
Garden Party
It might not be surfing, but we like it. From wild swimming and performance poetry to ukuleles, Clare Howdle goes in search of Cornwall’s cultural side at the Port Eliot Festival 2009.
Cultural Ebb
Hailed as this year’s hippest festival, Port Eliot is just around the corner and I’m heading to the stately home to see just how a weekend of books, comedy, music and eccentricity fits into Cornwall’s cultural landscape.
Purple jelly
You heard it here first folks. It’s official - we are in store for a scorcher this year. I’ve seen definitive proof – if the locals are to be believed - to back up the Met Office’s promises of a barbeque summer and it comes in the way of purple jelly.
