Surfing sells everything

After a week in France and two weeks in London (the former was pleasure, the latter work), mercifully I find myself settled back in the far west. Being in one place is a good thing, especially if that place happens to have quality surf on its doorstep. But when I've not been in the water, I've been refreshing my knowledge of the surfing blogosphere. I'm reminded that Beach Bum writes a fine old blog. The headline for this post is, I admit, stolen from him, as is this image, though I can honestly say that I, too, have often reflected on the way in which surfing is hi-jacked to sell all manner of products, with perhaps its worst and most inapposite appropriation being by nerds who 'surf the internet'. Anyway, I hope Beach Bum won't mind and if you don't already know it, I urge you to check out his wonderfully eclectic site forthwith.

Ed's note: What kind of word is 'forthwith'? Were you a lawyer in a former life? Please use plain English hereinafter and especially when this blog is on A1Surf from 1st October onwards.

Comments

[Graham Shephard]

I used to wait for the Old Spice Ad....... when I was

"Too young to shave, too inland to surf"

[Beach Bum]

Hmmm ... I deduct from your recent travels then, sir, that when you were in London, Sea Nymph and I had occasion to test the waters down at Sennen. I found myself wondering "out the back" (to use the parlance)that if, looking from that fine strand, your shack was perched to the left, or to the right of the beach. And by chance, the previous day, I was rather taken with some pleasing abstract art in a gallery in Mousehole, produced, I am informed by the owner of said gallery, by one Karen Wade. The framing detracted somewhat, I venture to add, from the piece itself but I was well pleased by the blue tones and the half moon I viewed. If I was not pecuniarly challenged at this point, I daresay I would have made purchase of this particular painting. (Just for your Ed. And yes, you can beg, steal or borrow - I don't mind at all.)