Brrrrrrrrr

So cold.....

Ace of base

I'm new to all this layers business, didn't really get it to be honest. Then arrives our new Merino base layers and I try one on.... Well, tickle my snowballs, Gul may well have given us a sustainable answer to our poor heating problem during this cold snap. Ive got one and I'm toasty, told Rachel about it and she has one too now, she says she's toasty... We are converted! And as a result, have completely bored anyone and everyone who will listen with this impressive list of merino(y) properties:

• Natural odour resisting properties (sweat as much as you like)
  Wet and Dry insulation
  Super soft finish
  Thumb loops on the long sleeve version
• 100% merino wool

It's Cold... it's VERY cold!

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With the weather as it is don't be silly, put those shorts and flip flops away and come get togged out - buy the scarf and you get the hat half price.... BARGAIN!

R x

Good Feeling...

Guess who's back in the county tonight....

Generations

Thanks to a few of our friends, we've got some lovely representations of Gul's history scattered around our shop. It provides not only colour and a talking point, but also a useful contrast to the neoprene-based technologies of today. We're like a mini Gul museum, right in the heart of Bude. C

Gul Yeovil

Although technically Weymouth did come fairly quickly after us, we've still felt like the newbies to the Gul stable since opening in March.

Well, that's all changed now that Gul Yeovil are passed this mantle!

Welcome, colleagues at Gul Yeovil. Now that we're 'seasoned', we promise not to pick on you. Honest. C

Flip Flop Fail

Time is Tickling!

Come on people!

Not long left now to gather up all your smelly wetsuits, stickers with no "stick", hard armpit tee's and starwars figures.... Ready for the Big Bude Surf Jumble!

You might get enough money together to have a nice little xmas night out or something?

These girls are well up for it...

Perfect Sunday

Advertisement for Gul Bude

These two came to Gul Bude and scored the amazing "Buy One Get One Half Price" offer!
Something for him ..... Something cheaper for her...

Had a frolic in the last of the autumn leaves on the way home then they had a roast, then some special time.....


They are happy, you could be this happy if you do exactly the same.

Pah........

It's a flipping conspiracy I tells ya!

Bude - Crooklets Surf Report and Forecast

Love me long time

This made me think......



How to Recycle a Surfboard

Good advice! Alternatively you could bring all your old ones along to our Board Swap!?

It's Time...

.... to start thinking of Christmas presents and we're thrilled to announce the arrival of our Gul Watches .

The perfect present, we like to think, for your partner, children, friend or family, or simply for a cheeky pre-Christmas gift to yourself.

We think they are simply lovely!

In this picture; the A-42 series in Orange and Blue

We have a wide range, so why not make some time and pop in to take a look, you may even find some little stocking fillers too!

Rx

Mount Gulmore

We've been busy little bees here in Bude, busying ourselves with wallpaper paste and random Gul images!

The foundations of this tale start with our ugly and most unappealing polystyrene mannequin heads!

These poor bodiless souls have been subject to much abuse over the months, usually at the hands of our pre-teen patrons! These tiny terrors have, upon occassion, decided our heads didn't need a nose or ear or chin and so have become somewhat bedraggled along the way.

So we set to work and gave them a face lift... then something strange occurred... something eerie... we've begun to think that we may have been guided from beyond the grave.

See our point?

Anyway, Presidents aside, we think they look fantastic and if you look really carefully you may just be in for a little treat.

R and E xx

38 Days

Yep... you've only got 38 days left till Santa comes speeding across the sky with his trusty steeds depositing presents from aloft. Shops on Belle Vue have been busying themselves dressing windows with tinsel and glitter and there seems to be a little festive cheer in everyone today.

With this in mind we thought we'd remind you that our Buy One get One Half Price deal is still on and it isn't going to last forever so take full advantage of us and fill up your bottom drawers/lofts/wardrobes (wherever it is you squirrel away your presents before the 25th December).

While you're in the store why not enter our competition to win £200 of Gul products, there's a different winner each month - surely this is a no-brainer so close to Christmas.

You'd be a fool not to!

Rx

Ringers

I have a friend called Lee. He has a son called Alby.
When I was down in Newquay over the weekend, I spotted this old Gul advert, and I promise I'm not joking when I say that they both look very similar to my friend and his son. I'm going to politely ask them to pose in a similar style, and then let you be the judge.
Meantime, I'm off for a bit. I plan to sleep, eat and hang out on the Welsh border looking sheepish (pun most certainly not intended...)
Toodle-oo.
C

Bring it

Worth a look?

Bude - Crooklets Surf Report and Forecast

Everyone is going out tonight...... get in early tomorrow but sshhhhh

BUY ONE, GET ONE HALF PRICE!

A succulent deal, this one. Buy anything from our new Autumn Winter fashion and accessories range, and get another at half the price on the ticket. Succulent, juicy and, frankly, drool-inducing.
Especially with Christmas but a lap of a reindeers paddock away.

SAS Raffle Tickets

We've just taken delivery of a whole bunch of raffle tickets for the Surfers Against Sewage 20th Anniversary Raffle. Tickets are £1 each, with 20 excellent prizes to be won including £2ooo worth of Gul gear as top prize! A tipi holiday, a signed limited edition print of Jack Johns by Mickey Smith and a 3-day hire of a 1970's VW campervan are all also in the prize chest. The staff have already bought their tickets. All the proceeds goes towards protecting our waves, oceans and beaches from an abundance of horrid stuff and, of course, poo. So drop by and get yer ticket now! When you do, be sure to peruse our copy of 'The WAR Report' - SAS's scientific analysis of waves and their benefit to our environment, and why we should be exceedingly careful when talking about harvesting energy from them and altering our landscape against their natural process. Fascinating stuff, and it's kept us debating all through this particularly Autumnal day.

Cold

Cold (the opposite of hot) refers to the condition or subjective perception of having low temperature.

The coldest theoretically possible temperature is absolute zero which, quite honestly, we think it is today.

Fortunately we have everything you can possibly need to combat these less than warm days so pop in, bring a steaming cup of coffee and thumb through our winter woollies - you won't regret it!

Emma must have been a Girl Guide, she's not daft, she came prepared this morning...

Emma wears: Cheer Cardigan in Vanilla; Bronte Gilet in Navy; Perran Striped Scarf; Perran Strip Beanie; Freestyle Mittens; Fistral Ears Beanie in Blue AND White

R x

Surf Jumble & Board Swap

One Man And His Campervan (and lovely family)

Martin Dorey, friend and frequenter of this very shop, has a TV series coming out next year. Regular readers may well remember Martin. He not only contributed to our photo contest back in April, he also sent us this lovely little shot of a prim hound having a dainty dump.

BBC 2 commissioned a 10-part series after the release of his first book, the very popular 'Camper Van Cookbook'. It airs in February.

So, in anticipation, here's a little trailer - One Man And His Campervan

Remember Remember.... 11th December

Guest Blog

High time for another guest blog so I'm going to post an old favourite today because it's Saturday and that's traditionally old favourites day.

It contains nudity. But then so does life. C

www.generalconsumption.co.uk

Remember, Remember... to RUN.

It's that night again.

Sellotaped Letterboxes.

Hot Metal.

Shaking Dogs.

Sirens.

Vulnerable Cats.

Wounded Parents.

Weaponised Chavs.

Improvised Explosive Devices.

House Fires.

Apples stuck to infants faces.

Scolding Potatoes.

Oohs.

Aahs.

Gawd bless Bonfire Night, we love it.... C

Yo! Ville.

Our esteemed colleagues here at Gul are busy beavering away on our new concept store, soon to open in Yeovil, Somerset. We really like the brickwork, we really like the lamp. We want the brickwork and we want the lamp.
Go on, giz it... C

Dig it out

Want an idea of some of the paraphernalia we're hoping will make it's way onto tabletops at the surf jumble? Well here you go. I was necessarily going through old boxes of my stuff that was in my Mums attic. She's moving house so I was told in no uncertain terms that if I want my stuff kept out of the local landfill, I'd best take a fast interest in moving it elsewhere. So in an attempt to whittle down my lifes belongings to a manageable few boxes, I was forced to revisit the question of the necessity in keeping stuff I may never use again, sentimental or practical as it may still be/have once been.

And then I came across a trove of old surf goodies, including one of my first surf mags, Wavelength #2 (frustratingly, I did have issue one, but it seems to have gone the way of lots of my old stuff. Mice food.)

A great find, with Gul represented on many pages. It even has a page 3 girl. They truly don't make them like they used to. C

Get a new hobby

Bude - Crooklets Surf Report and Forecast

The Gul Bude Surf Jumble & Board Swap!

We've had this up our sleeve for a bit, only pulling the cuffs back now and then to reveal a little tantalising glimpse. To say we're very excited about it is an understatement. Just think of all that garage and attic based surf-related booty that must be hidden away gathering dust and value....
Be sure to get in touch as soon as possible if you're interested in a stall (first come, first served!) Call on 01288 354484 or email us at gul.bude@btconnect.com. We'll provide the tables and chairs, you provide the jumble. Because we love jumble. But we also like cakes, art and all sorts... if you think you have something to bring to the table (literally) that would fit in nicely, call us and we'll let you know exactly what we think, in a very diplomatic manner. C