So Elise is here and the love vibe is going better than ever (come on Sulli give me your best shot old boy). Here’s a pic of us yesterday as we were cruising down the South Bank, London.

So Elise and I arrived in Brussels this morning after cruising over on the Eurostar and are just chilling having our first beer. We are about to head out and check out some of the city and then have a few more beers and some grub, look like it is gonna be a good day ahead.

So it has been a long and, at times, arduous journey, but finally Elise and I will be seeing each other again. She arrives Monday evening, and to say that I am exited (much like a small child at Christmas), would be putting it lightly. I can’t wait to see her and spend some “quality” time together, it is gonna be fantastic.

We’ll start off the week in Richmond and London, popping over midweek to Brussels, and then back to England and up to Essex, it’s gonna be an amazing time, and I can’t wait.

Richie and I made the journey up to Runton yesterday to get involved in some classic chop. The faces ranged from 4-6ft, with a definite “bobbies” element to the lineup. I managed to catch maybe 5-6 waves and endured a few wipeouts, one of which was kinda hardcore. I was cruising down the face and suddenly lost my footing. I hit the water so hard it felt like concrete, and sounded like a rather sharp punch to the side of my head. I came up a little shocked, shook it off and then returned to the lineup.
We managed 3 hours of surfing and then hung up our wetsuits and retired to the confort of the pub over in West Runton.

We supped on a couple of pints and relaxed in the sun for a few hours, all good. We then hit cromer pier, armed with fish and chips. It was a chilled evening, with the sun low on the horizon, but defintely warmer than when we had left that morning in the pouring rain.

All in all a good day out, and much better than 50% of the population who would have been sitting on the arses on the Sunday afternoon doing the nation’s favourite sport, slobbing out!

So finally the swell has arrived. The weather is pretty dire this weekend, but the upside of that is a 5-7ft swell up at East Runton this weekend. Richie a.k.a the P dog, is in transit as we speak and him and I are gonna hit the beast that is Runton, early tomorrow morning.

I am expecting 4-5ft faces, and who knows, we may even get a little bigger. I think it’s gonna be a little messy up there, but hey, they’re waves man, and I am on it, big style. We’ll take the DV cam and digital camera and hopefully get some pics to show ya’ll next week. Bring it on…

So today was my first attempt at a little AJAX, and what do you know, it worked out a treat, real nice little piece of functionality that I have put together for one of my clients. I think I will be using it a lot more in the future. Another tool for the toolbox as they say. And yes, I can just see Sulli’s comments now, “Your a tool Ben”… nice one mate, come on step up your game brother!

7ft swell at Runton this weekend…bring it on!

So I was sending some pics of me over to Elise this evening and I thought I’d give the blog a retro-feel with a little pic of mini me, back in the day, 1983, when things were simple, penny sweets were plentiful and brown was the colour of the day, be it curtains, shorts, t-shirts, it was brown brown brown.

In another exciting note, it is only 11 days until Elise arrives…

Yesterday morning I was having a shower etc and took a quick second to look in the mirror. I was surprised to see what looked like a grey hair. I was a little taken aback and thought, f*ck it was bound to happen at some point, the official sign of joining the old boys club had finally came around. For about 5 minutes I was thinking, god I am gonna be a true silver surfer by the time I am 30. Quite a few of my mates (who I shall spare the embarassment) have grey hairs, so I am not alone here.

Anyway, a second look in the mirror found that the offending hair was actually a bit of fluff, so it was indeed a false alarm and I actually have no grey hairs, which is nice. I do obviously however have crap eyesight, so whatever way you look at it, I am getting old!

28 and over the hill, nah not yet I hope…

I have been working down in London for the past 3 days, with the guys and gals at Electric. Have done some great work and they were pleased with my efforts. I have just also won a new development contract for one of their clients, which is cool and will keep me out of trouble for the next few weeks until Elise arrives.

On a different tip, Runton looks like it has the potential to maybe ‘go off’ next weekend, haven’t been up there this year yet, so would be nice to get the boards out and feature some East Coast aciton…

Bummer hey, but I traded in an arvo’s waves at Runton for 2 days work in London. Charts saying that there might be a wave early next week, so hopefully catch a few then.

Weekend ahead and it looks like it’s gonna be a chill one, Kat, Mike and little Jared up for this evening and might be meeting up with my bro after my meeting this evening.