At long last we've finally managed to get out and ride alongside some rather dashing weather. summer definately felt that little bit closer this week, i cant really describe just how nice it was to get out in the sun and ride so hopefully the pictures up top will suffice.
Despite the bowls current state we managed to overcome and threw a few lines down, it seems to ride alot better than the last time myself and matt gave it a go in its current state, you just have to think of it more as a really good street spot than a super slick bowl. The lack of coping on one side is probably the worst part but you can just cover that up with some cardboard.

Talking of the bowl i came across THIS from the bowl back in its hayday, its so clean it looks like its made out of wood.

I dont have anything particularly clever to say, so instead go watch some bits from a pretty underrated programme that used to be on e4. TELEVISION AWKWARDNESS.

Recently ive mostly been taking pictures of girls. Its a hard job but someone's got to do it. This has actually, apart from our current duel with some pretty awkward snow, been the main reason for the absense of any new riding content, especially when we're ones for grabbing a few hours of daylight to get out and ride this has certainly been pretty strange. Thats mostly over now so we're going to hopefully get the chance this week to get out and ride if the weather allows it.

If you're missing summer like i am, go over to the ever fantastic DEFGRIP and watch the united hawaii VIDEO.

Since there's been relatively little to no riding recently i thought i'd slap together a B-roll of all afew photo's from last year that didn't quite make the grade when they probably should have done. Just use the numbers to scroll through the images.

Well yesterday myself, pete and phil went down to the meeting about the bowl, although it was actually more of a all welcome voting session. Because of waffling nonesense about insurance claims it doesn't look all too hopeful for the bowl. Though they are planning to build a new park to replace it, this will most proabably be years before anything is done. Contrary to justin lee collins' persistent positive outlook, this is not good times. Karma was on my side though, last night Ferris bueller's day off was on tv and as always it made everything pretty much good again.

I guess the best situation if the council can't get the money to completely repair the bowl is to temporarily re-skim it so its rideable for at best another year or two, and in the meantime source funding for a new park, and im thinking a clover bowl.

Our old friend botley bowl suffered a pretty serious INJURY late last year. As it turns out the council have finally decided to do something about it and from what i know there's two ideas. Either its going to be filled in for good, or repaired. Personally i would rather see the latter happening. Like dating Helen Mirren its one of the few older parks there are left in the south, and in my opinion more fun than most of the newer concrete parks nearby.

Now to shoot sharp and straight to the point Mike's been right on the case and found out that there's a meeting tomorrow at 9.30am at the seacourt hall in botley about it all, so if you want to give this old hermit the support it needs then by all means come along, myself and pete are heading down with our ties and breifcases to employ a strategic presentation on the saving this national treasure. This is really late notice but we weren't sure on the details exactly untill now. Anyway my babbling is a pittence in contrast to the words of the oxford mail, so go read THIS or even more on the ball, THIS for more.

That was all pretty intense so to restore our dysfunctional order here's two things i value as interesting.
1. I just ate hands down the biggest chip i have ever seen.
2. I will make pete buy THIS TIE at some point in the near future.

The playtime has hit spring cleaning early this year. i've been fiddling around with changing the site for ages now and ive finally come to this. Unlike iTunes in which this would be called version 2.1.9.3.1 and changed every two weeks im going straight up for the whole numbers. i give to you V3.

So what does this mean to the common man? This layout should maximize fun all around, and i really mean widespread fun. The approach we took last year ended up with updates coming around on average 1.666 recurring a month, which if you're a lady or a boyfriend once a month is more than enough, but for the average bigplaytime fan it just doesn't cut the mustard.

We'll aim to pump variety down your throats so much that you have to start reading variety magazine and eating variety packs of cereal to keep up with us. You'll send money to the VARIETY to make it stop but it just wont.

Anyway, im working on something for sometime within the next week so in the meantime listen to south africa's very own N-DUBZ.

So here we are, december again. this time last year i was just embarking on redesigning the site into its previous incarnation. i cant say thats going to happen again just yet, maybe just a little tinkering..

Im really hoping that there wont be a huge drought of posts after this, it always seems like we do more riding in the winter anyway which is bizzare and slightly arousing.

this has probably been blogged and re-blogged just about everywhere by now alas i saw it only earlier and it made me HAPPY. right, im off to do something wild like cut my nails.

According to the man of the hour, the self confessed pilgrim to the holy text that is Point Break; rimmer, this is the first thing he's actually done off a set. super nice. There were also alot of super nice looking girls in town, making a wharf whistle in petes general direction for this turndown all the more rewarding.

I dont know if its just me but i think petes lifestyle is brilliantly captured by keanu reeves in THIS moving scene. Also, and probably more so in THIS part. Anyhoo im fresh out, check back tomorow for another one, and hopefully i'll write something worthwhile... hah

We finally managed to make a long overdue outing to the streets yesterday and actually found some pretty cool stuff to shoot. Powered on cups of tea matt made rubber and brick join in a wonderfully satisfying way. Later we listened to a continental brass band play YMCA, this was almost equally satisfying.

I have two more shots for your very own hungry eyes, but i'll milk some more updates out of them, so come tomorow there may be another little present posted up on here.

i came across THIS the other day and i know, i know its skating but that shouldn't be a barrier as its so carefully filmed. go enjoy.

Absolute poor show from myself for not doing this in almost a month now, luckily though the blog has been keeping you posted on njugunas, heavy drinking, smoking blunts and videos. Hurrah.

One of the many reasons i haven't had time to do this is i recently went to the prague in the czech republic, which was to say the least pretty damn strange. petes been making slanderous accusations that my photos always seem warm looking. in an attempt to overcome this to the right is a nice holiday snap from what i have been told by a local was an old gypsy town. nice. maybe there will be more alas i am pushed for time currently.

I am now going to throw you over in the direction of photographer YANN GROSS who is damn fantastic. if anything just check out his series from UGANDA. I still cant put my finger on what these photos do for me but something hits home hard about them.

Sparing any other words, wednesday was the day i fell in love with a waitress at a thai buffet in camden. it was also the day we met some lovely chaps from the WEDNESDAY CLUB.

For once i have more pictures than words so i'll just dive in. although firstly apologies as it was really hard to shoot having little idea as to what lines people were going to hit, alongside alot of mis-timing and bad angles. here's what came out on top..

AUSTRALIAN HEIGHT
FIDS TABLE
FIDS NO-HANDS
CHRIS-G MOTO
RIMMER T-DIZZLE
FIDS WIDER TABLE

And im out. go watch THIS strangely appealing video by brandon blommaert.