Feeling Friday

Yawn.
It's a lovely, warm and mellow Friday morning. The surf is looking clean and gentle for the whole weekend. We've got fresh coffee on the go and some of the most environmentally friendly wetsuits on the planet to sell.

It's going to be a great weekend.

Bude Surf Report and Forecast

Air-kissing

A pilot up there loves me.

So I was doing my daily rounds on the cliffs this morning, looked up, shuffled my feet and blushed. There's a pilot, 32,000 feet over my head who, it would appear, is trying to send me very undiscreet messages. No less than TWO kisses in the sky for me. I think the whole of North Cornwall may have seen.

PDA to the max.

Reportage

I walk my dog on the North Cornwall cliffs every morning. His name is The Jeepster. We've been doing the same walk pretty much every morning for the 6 years since he was but a little ball of hair. Some mornings it's dark and wet. Some mornings it's warm and sunny. Sometimes it's a bit of both.

Another reason I do this walk so often is to check and write my surf report, which appears on a popular forecast site.

So just to let you know, if you ever need a bit of info on the conditions up this way, give us a call here in the shop, or drop by, and we'll do our best to point you in the right direction.

A Tuesday that feels a bit like a Monday......

Unusual I know, but you have to admit that it does!

Did it make getting out of bed any easier? No......

Did it make the much needed swell arrive a day sooner? No......

Did the bin men turn up? ........ Well yes, actually they were very efficient and well ahead of time.

But unlike the confused and tardy week that lays ahead, Gul Bude is here and steady as a rock and a constant reminder of quality and reliability.

Tom ...... I think?

Tyler, Baffa and Yellow

As we concentrate on shop floor business this grey but increasingly brighter BH Monday, here's a little flick that came about from the sublime 16mm treat that was Singlefin: Yellow by Jason Baffa. He's since made One California Day, another top movie that captures the essence of the great State.
And even better: we stock it here.

All Yew- Tyler Hatzikian from john smith on Vimeo.

You're smiling now, bunny...

It's Easter.

And if you happen to be a ginger bread bunny with smarties for coat buttons and your face is made of chocolate - then your days are probably numbered. I'd hide well away from me and my shop staff. We have a voracious appetite for bunnies just like you.

Just saying.

And what would Clapton know anyway?

We get some many financial offers for our cherished guitar. It's value? Who knows. But to us it's simply priceless. How can you sell something so beautiful anyway? And, from time to time, I take it down for a good pluck. I'll be honest, I'm no Slash. Never had a lesson in my life. And the sound that comes from it is comparable to that of a squirrel with it's hazlenuts caught in a waffle iron. But my word I look cool holding it. And that's my Mums opinion, not mine.

So it stays.

The Sun: She back!

Compare and contrast:

This Afternoon

This Morning

Afternoon gets our vote.

3 for 2 deal very much underway. It Rocks, frankly.

3 For 2 Deal starts today!

It IS a Good Friday after all! Despite the rubbish weather; all these cats and dogs falling from the sky (literally - I personally dodged a plummeting dachshund) and the not-exactly-sports-man-like Spring temperatures, there is some fantastic news in the offing this morning - we've started our 3 For 2 deal. Buy any 3 items in the shop, and get the cheapest item ABSOLUTELY FREE! And being a seasoned resident of this town, I know how we do love a bargain. So drop down, make the most of it. And why not bring a book to swap?

Llama Drama

It's not everyday that you see a beautiful, majestic llama.

And it's certainly not everyday that one bounds out in front of your car on the way to work.

And, as with the multitude of pheasants I encounter every single morning - nothing, but nothing makes me late for work.

So, unfortunately, this beautiful llama got clipped. Unlucky.

After single-handedly loading its fluffy, limp frame into the back of my station wagon, it's a short trip to Cleaver & Sons, the quality butchers, on my way home from work tonight, whereafter I should be feasting on large (but tender) loins of llama for a while.

That's the barbecue season sorted! Yeah!