Fucking hell. Back from the school run to find Chomp the cat asleep on my work laptop. He managed to:
Send a gibberish message on Mattermost.
Get into the accessibility settings and magnify everything as high as it can go.
Turn off the wifi.
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Sounds like he got a good pawwn hub sesh in.
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Been watching Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days these last few evenings. Even though I’ve resigned to staying put this year, in the near future I’d love to go on an extended trip for a few months doing something fairly similar - getting about by train, boat or bus. I can’t wait to see some places I’ve been longing to see all my life.
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I’m reading a book at the moment about a guy flying from England to Australia solo in the 30’s then something similar by boat and I’m getting itchy feet as well.
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Wtf nearly 25 mins
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That’s a lot longer than I’d ever have thought humanly possible. If it said ten minutes I’d still have thought it was nuts.
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David Blaine does a ted talk on how he did 17 mins, it’s very good
There’s an amazing but in it where he says something like ‘so far I was 11 minutes in and I had a really tremendous urge to breathe’
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Crazy. Although he’d be able to stand up if things went tits up. Unlike free diving, (this guy is actually a freediver btw but only started when he was 48), where if things go wrong you’re probably screwed. The depth records are nuts. There’re a few people to dive over 500ft, but there’s one guy who’s hit the 800ft deep mark. Very scary shit.
I just got a book, ‘One Breath’ by Adam Skolnick through the post today which is the story of Nick Mevoli. He was at the top of the competitive freediving world and was expected to win the World’s number one comp. His last dive killed him. I’ve just finished Barbarian Days, William Finnegan’s surfing autobiography and wasn’t sure what to read next, This has given me a nudge…will dive in this evening.
Was away for a week, didn’t check the internet apart from Insta. I know Abair passed away but what else happened? Did I miss anything?
Tuscany was nice. Nicer than the 7 hour drive back with a mean hangover today. 
I hope everybody’s alright.
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Man, some people…
Was just in Sainsbury’s at half-time. Was paying for my groceries at the self service, as you do. Anyway, I had some leeks (such an under-rated vegetable btw!), put them on the scales and weighed them there, then put them in the bagging area, just as you’d do on any other occasion. Some staff member swooped in behind me to announce that the price didn’t look right to her. I was just like “what!? how can you visually determine what a couple of loose leeks weigh?”
She had been hawking me and said “my weighing didn’t look right”. We re-weighed them and the price went from 52p to 67p. She proceeded to lecture me about how I was technically shoplifting and she can call security.
Just gave her a death stare and went about my way. Just trying to imagine what absolute parasite gets through her day by nitpicking on shit like that.
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Did you get to Lucca?
What a sad humain being.
Leave her where she is and enjoy your leeks.
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Nah but I went there (and all over Tuscany) as a kid with my parents.
We stayed in a very rural place, rented a flat in a farm and from there we went to San Gimignano, Siena, Volterra and Castelfiorentino. There weren’t many tourists at all dut to Covid, seeing all those places almost empty was very special.
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Did you get around by driving or did/could you rely on public transport?
We drove. You could get around with public transport but I was told it’s not that good. Probably good from a city to another but not in the sticks. We could also have rented bikes or e-bikes which we usually do but it was really hot (33°C and more) so we took it easy.
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Thanks dad for sending me a times article (behind paywall) about Britain’s youngest olympian, Sky Brown. It’s like he thinks I live under a rock and has taken it upon himself to act as my central source of skateboarding news
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I get the same kind of thing. Only my Dad actually cuts skate related articles out of both local and national newspapers and mails them to me, quite often with a handwritten précis of the article.
It’s pointless, he needn’t bother, but I like that he takes the time to do it.
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Actually that’s a good point I shouldn’t be so ungrateful
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First skate in over 2 years.
I thought before I’d be able to kickflip anything until my seventies. Genuinely shocked that I’ve lost everything. My legs have wasted away. Microflopop. This cruiser coffin thing didn’t help either.
Still though. Moved house and now I have a good but of flatground right down the road. Going to go out every night now.
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So, last night I watched this documentary about this Instagram con-artist in Australia who claims she was curing her terminal cancer through ‘wellness’. In many ways she’s responsible for spearheading the movement (in the loosest sense) as we know it today.
The documentary itself is actually a great watch and I’d really recommend it, but the reason I’m posting it here is she was eventually ‘caught’ through her associated post history on a skate forum. Given it occurred in Australia, I’m assuming she posted on an Australian forum, but for those who live there now or are more in touch with the scene there, is the name Belle Gibson something which is talked about and remembered?
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