This week it's mostly...

...rained

But you'd would know about that wouldn't you. Floods, monsoon, Glasto and Wimbledon in the same month, ahh the British Summer (and Cape Town winter..). I'm not coming back...

Sunday was a bit a lame day recovering from the building and the basketball.. But we managed to haul ourselves out to see the sea. The day was pretty rough weather wise and the sea was being awesome. This was Llandudno which had really nice beach with a huge outcrop of rocks that had eroded so much they looked like they shouldn't stand up. We get some more pics of these ona nice day.

I moved 6000 miles to get away from DIY

So on Saturday we went to the school in Gugletu that Tamar were using for their Corporate Social Responsibility project.

Builders being builders there's a snagging list as long as your arm so it was all hands on deck to get stuff done.

So there I was Saturday morning 10am glazing the toilet block windows. As it turned out all that pulling my sash windows apart in Dulwich turned out to be good training for what lay ahead.

Again builders being builders that day was done at about 2pm and we stuck into beers and one hell of a Brai (BBQ). Now we're not talking a couple of crappy foil trays filled with charcoal and parafin, we're talking Brai South African style. 2 oil drums filled with charcoal and meat, this we were informed was what South Africa was built on.

And to wash everything donw an inpromtu game of basketball. Tamar SA + Me against Cashbuild (The Builders). Now i'm certainly no Michal Jordan and my 5'8" frame doesn't really cut it on a basketball court but I somehow managed to score 2 goals...and lead us to victory... wow. image that a group of late twenties computer/marketing people beats a bunch of 35+ builders in boots... Amazing.

Extreme Sports Map is live!

Yep thats right, it's done (well almost, it works most of the time).
www.extremesportsmap.com/uk/

What an Idiot

I've done that classic Bristich holiday maker one today. First day back at work and I've rocked up in shorts to find everyone in jeans and jumpers. The BBC said it would be hot today! I might as well have arrived shirt off, in a pair of union jack shorts with my hankercheif tied in knots on my head.

I am such a loser.

The English are good at queing

only because they have to do to so much.

London Calling

So here I find myself. Back in the Smoke.

Sunday was quite a productive day considering I'd had only what seemed like only 2 hours sleep on saturday night.

Did my shopping for the next 3 months. Enough Pot noodle, Earl Grey and Ovaltine to support an attempt on Everest.

Got some cheap games for the PSP, hugely cheper than they are in SA.

I then ha d areally great little sake on the Ravenscout Park mini ramp. So good the be ona board on a smooth surface, like they day you get new wheels and bearings, but without the new wheels and bearings.

Extreme Sports Map

I've got a new project under way at the moment. It's called Extreme Sports Map and is based on the Google Maps API, or for those of you who arn't geeks, the Google maps thing with satelite images in it.

The idea is to plot the locations of skateparks, streets spots, surf breaks and in fact any place where you can go about sliding on a board, riding bike or jumping off things. In true 2.0 fashion (again, apologies to the non geeks) visitors to the site can add their own spots to the project and comment on spots already there.

It's been a pretty quick site to get up and running, and is hopefully going to be fully live in the next few weeks.

Stamp this url into your mind. www.extremesportsmap.com

Thunder bolts and lightening, very very ..

Er.... Close. We had an awesome electrical storm last night.

If you go down to the woods today

You'll see some absolutly huge Eucaliptus. And lots of other big trees. Ceacealia Plantation turned out to a be cool place for a walk.