Summer has arrived

Days of unbroken sunshine - fantastic! Lazy days at the beach beckon..in fact on Saturday morning I managed to grab my first swim in the sea, it was a bit cold..but I was pretty hot after a run so it felt good. I took this picture Saturday evening as I sat on the beach with an icecream.


This was a busy week at work as the pace quickens but I am feeling much more confident about things in general - its all slowly beginning to click into place. On wednesday we went up to Yorkshire [5am start..ugh] to meet with a new client. It was quite a day for jargon - here are some new ones for me - MI [management information..isnt that just a report?], BDT [business development team], rate sale, FSA, FEPS..I shan't go on. In fact, I even caught myself saying 'application' and 'interface' without feeling odd at all - which 6 mths ago would have been been just plain strange.. Credit to my director who managed to get latent semantic indexing in there too - excelIent! .Then on Thursday I went up to London for a trade show/conference - it was good to see all the other agencies in one place - competition is stiff out there, suffice to say I heard a lot of trumpet blowing. Some pretty interesting seminars though - helpful for someone learning like me. Next week is shaping up to be busy one too..project meeting on Monday and a presentation/meeting on Tuesday. Things are shaping up very well though and I dont miss the music industry one bit..Hunter S Thompson may well have been right.

So after a busy week at work things looked sunny for the weekend, caught the first game of the world cup with people from work over a few beers then fish and chips for dinner round a friends house. Saturday spent shopping and sorting my rust bucket bike out for the bike ride next sunday. As long as the weather is good it will be fun. My flatmate has finished his boat now so we went out today on it.









We took my surfboard along to see if we could do a bit of improvised wakeboarding - and it worked a treat!! It was pretty hard getting up and I fell off loads of times but once you were up it was great. DIY fun at its best! Paul even managed to get some moves in cutting across the wake with style. This boat can shift, once the supercharger in the monster volvo engines kicks in, it really moves! Definitely the jeremy clarkson school of sailing - it gets my vote...I must admit as well I felt a bit Miami Vice driving it around Shoreham harbour.


Paul styles it with one hand, shouting faster most of the time...


I hang on for dear life...

On the way back to the harbour Paul opened her up and we clocked 36 knots..which is about 40mph - ie fast..!

What an awesome day..living by the sea rocks. Here is a nice picture of Shoreham beach I took on the way back to round it off...