BREO and grapes. And volcanoes.

In these strange days of hot eruptions and quiet airports, while we've got all these people from abroad stuck here with little to do but head to Bude, we thought it the perfect time to introduce our range of BREO watches, flip-flops and headphones!! Our range of Breo 'Skin' and 'Roam' watches are the tardy surfers best friend, as they can be worn into the sea. No more missing that important dinner date, doctors appointment or, dare I say it, flight....

The flip-flops are soft and squishy and your feet will instantly want you to walk on them more. And more. And more.

Pop down today and have a peruse, we're here until 5.

Oh and I put grapes in the title for absolutely no reason at all. Just in case you were wondering.

Sunny weekend!! Is that a BBQ I smell warming up?

Yes folks it's BBQ day! Get the sausages out now to defrost and avoid disappointment. The beer in the fridge and the many condiments at the ready.

I for one am heading straight home tonight after work to burn my whole family's food to ashes while my wife prepares "back up" dinner for the kids in-doors.

You better run to the local convenience store quickly before all the white finger buns get snapped up and all your left with is a small brown loaf.

Onions!!! Don't forget onions...

Then call friends and family and hope they didn't already get invited to a better sausage sizzle by someone who's much cooler than you.

Oh, might be an idea to keep the wet weather gear handy too?

Plastic water bottles

If your a switched on surfer dude (or dudet).... then you'll already know that our new Recore wetsuit is made up from a percentage of recycled PET plastics.

We need some bottle!

We want to do a snazzy window display involving some of the things that help make up one of these fantastic eco friendly suits, so we are asking you to drop by with a H20 container or two for us...... (maybe one or two per person, we don't need hundreds!)

We are just not healthy enough to get through that much of the wet stuff on our own.

While your in here check out the store and maybe squeeze yourself into one of said suits?! We are always on hand to help push.

Sign of the Times

This is our swing sign. We put it up today. We think it's possibly the best swing sign on earth. We know that there are many other Gul stores in the South West who are mildly jealous of our swing sign. So we've attached all manner of security devices to our swing sign:

- If half-inched, our swing sign triggers an alarm at MI5.

- Our swing sign screams if it goes more than 10 yards from the store front.

- Our swing sign is loaded with security paint. If it is lowered to within 6 feet of the ground it will combust in a whirl of luminous rainbow coloured paints.

- Our swing sign has a sophisticated GPS tracking device. We would know exactly which Gul store front it is hanging from by the tracking device that the manager keeps in his pocket at all times. The pocket has a zip and a lock, to which no-one but the manager has a key.

- It may look like simple galvanised brackets holding our swing sign up, but they are actually custom-made carbon fibre, diamond lined and forged in a secret underground metalworks (the very same that produce Uri Gellers cutlery.)

Our swing sign has more swing than Frank Sinatra.

We love our swing sign.

The High Lens

Deep in the Scottish boondocks, a team from Gul are busy documenting a wild trip that we're bound to be able to tell you more about in the future (because to be frank it's all a bit mysterious to us still).

Check out the latest just here

Our Bude photo competition is still open! We've had some interesting submissions. Old, new, tatty, embarassing - any photos of yourself in a bit of Gul product is fair game. Get it to us at : gul.bude@btconnect.com

Everyone is at the beach today

The weather is good, very good indeed. So as a result everybody has gone to sit, play and generally frolick on the beach.

If you get a chance in between pastys and sand covered ice-creams why not pop in to the shop and check out our top line in beach wear for men and women?

King Kong, Action Man and the gang did!

Oh and theres the small matter of the...

photo comp! Photo Comp! PHOTO COMP!!!!

Don't forget it........ All submissions sent to gul.bude@btconnect.com

Come on people we need those snaps, you can be wearing fabric, rubber, maybe just a leash?!? New or old we don't mind as long as it's GUL..ish. Send um in and WIN WIN WIN

Happy tanning

PHOTO CONTEST!!!

If Ned Kelly had taken off his big metal hat, picked up a surfboard and ridden a well-documented North Cornish point break, we'd wager he'd look something quite similar to our hairy adopted Australian friend Julian Gardner, seen here being shaka'd on by Bude local Ben Jarvis.
Unfortunately, Jules isn't wearing a Gul wetsuit, but we love the photo. But this leads us nicely on to our first little blog competition!
We'd like to see any photos, new or old, of people in Gul gear. This can be wetsuits, t-shirts, boardies - anything, so long as we can see the Gul logo. The shots can be faded 70's polaroids (scanned and sent over) to day-old digital snaps. Anything. The best shot, as judged by ourselves, will win a GUL T-SHIRT of their choice!

All submissions must be sent to gul.bude@btconnect.com

Get raiding those dusty albums!

Licence to thrill?

James Bond picked up the Jaguar XK8 from Q branch after receiving a brief comms from Major Boothroyd concerning a couple of new features he had added since Bond had used the car last. One of these was a supercharger, an Eaton M112 which normally delivered 370 bhp and 387 lb ft torque. Bond had insisted on a modification to increase the boost to give 500 bhp, which Boothroyd had reluctantly made.

Well......... James Bond clearly knows his Hardware and Tech, as do we here in the Gul store Bude!

Come along as ask us about our Wetsuits, range of surf hardware and Outdoor fashion range. Oh..... and jet skis with missile launchers. Were fully trained in covert service and assistance.

Were on a mission . . . . . Secret agent 00 TOM

NoCo blog wars

Below is a shot from Bude, last night.

This one's for our friends in Padstow.

We blatantly win, Padders.

Plumped.

The shop is looking, frankly, delicious this morning. Just like the banana bread (with walnuts) that my good and very pregnant friend Sarah baked for me. So as I write this, wistfully staring out into a blue sky, chomping on Banana bread, loving the state of Kernowfornia, I just need to remind everyone that the 3 for 2 deal is currently still on (buy any 3 items of clothing, and get the cheapest one absolutely...free)

Our book swap is up, running and swappage is underway.

The sofa cushions are looking Saturday plump.

Yeah.

Cool.