Borrowed

I had a fun surf late yesterday at this spot using a battered old board my brother found under a pub when they were demolishing it.
Like a classic old Strat, this board can still glide and is a dream to paddle (especially after punching through the shories on the open beaches on a shortboard the day before.)
Pic below of Caloundra photog Darryl Meredith riding a Hayden quad which now has a a five fin setup.

#Selfie

GoPro selfie care of Matt Lingard. A long time ago, he creaed the cartoon below. Keep charging kid.

Technical Hitch

The brinecave is swimming in wires as I grapple with finding the cause of our internet and email demise.

Turns out it was the modem which probably got bashed when my clumsy foot tripped over one of the numerous cables dangling out of various devices designed to give me more "leisure time".

A week without internet and email starts to get liberating after you get used to a new routine. Suddenly there are all these extra hours in the day.

Go on, turn the computer off and put the phone in the drawer.

How long can you last?

Monochrome Monday (Hello Winter)

Hello winter

rubber suits

and crisp offshores

"Winter came down to our home one night

Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,

And we, we were children once again."

Bill Morgan, Jr.

Pizza

Carbo pizza today

Football tonight

Reo tomorrow

Serendipities (sic)

Serendipity 1
Pic above can only be shot at a certain time of the day, at a certain time of the year, when the sun rises at a certain nor'easterly angle, on a cloudless day and certain yellow flowers are in bloom.

Serendipity 2
I was looking for the pic above as part of our team's fundraising bicycle ride, when I came across a long forgotten dusty nugget (below) taken in the Sahara Desert on the fly from on top of a camel.

Monochrome Monday (mixing metaphore)

I was hoping to think of some appropriate words to complement these images.

Something deep, like the way the ocean and our lives move through cycles.

Better still, something deep and quirky like, "if a black bird falls out of a black sky into the Black Forest would a falling tree in the Amazon harm a butterfly?" 

But that would probably be mixing way too many metaphors and cultures for a Monday.

So then I thought that I was overthinking (again) and decided to let the pix speak (or not) for themselves.

#hashtag

Like most #non-celebrities,

I lead a mostly #boring #life.

But every now and then,

my camera and my computer

conspire to produce 

somethng colourful.

Who's Tech?

Just when I think I know Technology, the inexplicable malfunctioning of my email reminds me how little I really know and what small player I am on the grander stage.

Yes, I've tried turning the computer off and  on and off and on again.

Yes I paid the account.

Bringing It All Back Home

I have been blogging since 2009. Maybe it started as some way of responding to my brother passing away from cancer. Some way of leaving something worthwhile behind of my life. Maybe. 

Since then, I have lost a young niece and another niece's husband to cancer. It has also hit several of my friend's families.

So this year, when my widowed niece asked me to ride my bicycle raise money for cancer research, I didn't hesitate. I've since discovered it's 200 kms over two days. The furtherest I have ridden on the cruiser bike above (and I was way younger) was 40 kms. So it will be challenging. But nothing compared to what terminal cancer sufferers and their families and friends go through.

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BIG THANKS

"You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue."

from It's All Over Now Baby Blue by Bob Dylan 1965

Monochrome Monday (Spray)