Groundhog day!

Its like groundhog day here with the beautiful weather and the awesome waves continuing.School holidays continue and there are very few tourists here, with vitually no surfers!i dont know where they are but i am still surfing every morning before i go to work with world class waves nearly every session.My shoulders are burning from so much paddling;I was talking to some locals yesterday and they cant remember a period like this before with such consistant surf. I need a break!

What a week!

Magnificent weather in the south west of france this week with 30° every day.Perfect weather and perfect waves to go with it;Quite possibly the week of the year for surfers.4-6- ft and offshore all week.I surfed every morning before heading off to work and then again of an evening a few times too.I'm glad the weather has changed with an onshore wind so i can have a rest.My shoulders are sore and tired.Weve been busy at work too, we're making some fancy displays for Nixon (watches) that are destined for Selfridges in London.They are looking pretty good and its great to be making something to send to a special store like that.Lola has started her easter holidays and weve had Corinnes birthday and my Mums birthday too.we are looking forward to seeing Kaye and Barry soon nad I've nearly finished the bedroom for them.We may even make a trip to paris to spend a weekend with them in May

Work,Weather,Waves,4 YEARS

Great weather continues.We had a little hiccup with a little bad weather a couple of weeks ago and it rained yesterday.Spring is here with the birds chirping and are happy about it just like us.Plenty happening on the work front with the renovation of the garage keeping me very busy,and also plenty on offer in the workshop with Jez too.I took last week off to get a full weeks work done here and was really productive until i discovered the woodborers in the roof of the garage-bummer!-so i pulled down the entire ceiling that i had installed a couple of weeks ago so i could treat the little buggers!luckily they were only in a couple of rafters and had gone too far in the main beams.They are a huge problem in this part of the world, but also they have some good products to deal with them too- and lucky they werent termites,coz they are an even bigger problem.In between working my bum off , i have been also surfing and getting some excellent quailty waves.There were no waves for 3 weeks , but when it came on again , we have scored more amazing waves.It continually amazes me how good the waves are here and this winter has been -for someone who can sneak away midweek when the bulk of the surfing population are at work- great with more hours in the water than any other in the last 4 years since we arrived.YES --4 years already(nearly)Corinne is working part time which is good for her mental and physical state but not for our cashflow.Lola continues to rack up the excellent marks at school and is looking forward to seeing her aunty Kaye( and hopefully Barry too) in May and is devouring books(in french and in english) at a great rate.Thanks to the internet its easy to get english text books these days, and its very important, that without a good level of english lessons available at school , its something that we have to make a little more effort with buying lots of books.Even though we speak english at home she does need the extra input.One thing she hasnt lost is her typical aussie accent!

Back to winter

Back to reality with 48 hours of rain nd yesterday had plenty of wind with it.Not ridiculously cold but very wet!

winter??????????????? LIFE IS GOOD!

More sensational weather with the last 3 days of 21- 22° and the rest of the week looking good too! I feel surfed out after more good waves this morning and late yesterday back at the same spot as the photo's that i took last week.Amazing conditions yesrerday just likelast week but with a light offshore breeze that had it groomed perfectly.As good as you could find anywhere in the world.My shoulders ache and i need a few days out of the water.Its so hard to stay away from the beach when the conditions are so good.I've got to get as many waves as i can while i can!Feeling surfed out in winter is surely a good thing.Life is good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waves

Check out these waves today-EPIC-Absolutely cracking!!!!.Its too big everywhere else and it is supposed to be too big here but its a very nice 5ft and could be good tomorrow with another foot on it !!!!!!

Winter update

Its been a great winter for surfers this year with pumping waves virtually the whole winter with just a few slack weeks.Cold,yes,but thats winter herein Europe, with the coldest session last week early one morning at a nippy -7°.It was ok in the water at 13°,but brrrrrrrrr, the change out of the wetsuit in the cold wind wasnt much fun,especially as i couldnt find my gloves!Luckily i have 3wetsuits sso i always have a dry one to climb into- very important.Yesterday i ran along the beach a coupla hundred metres to a pumping solid righthander with Carwyn and we scored some bombs,with just the 2 of us out we could take the pick of them and was fun untili copped a coupla beatings by 2 rogue sets and got washed in-feeling tired and too old for the winter beatings like that!Its going to be too big for the next week,at least so i will try to get as much work done here as possible.I've been working in the garage,converting it into a bedroom.
I've had more allergy problems and the Allergologue(allergy specialiste) cant work out what the problem is and is sending me to someone else-its too hard for her!
Corinne is now working part-time so cash is a bit shorter but she's under less pressure at work so she's much happier about that.
The weather still hasnt been too bad with virtually no rain and light winds.It has been cold but if its clear its kinda easier to deal with winter
I cooked up the mandatory meat pie for Australia day and popped a nice bottle of penfolds-very nice indeed!