Thank you......

After just reading Rae's recent good news, I have to thank Rae and Phil for their kind pre-invitation to their wedding in July. I look forward to receiving the full invitation, they are bound to be amazing if they took 108 days! I have only known Rae and Phil for a very short time and am privaledged that they would invite me to the biggest day of their life. Thanks guys and I will dig out my bestest shirt and tie etc for the big day!!

A week of sorts

The past week and a bit has been quite eventful. In-between BoardFree supported events I caught a cold and have been seeking employment in Swansea before going paintballing for a friends stag-do.
The events were both run by the University of Wales Swansea and generously helped raise some money towards BoardFree. Both of them allowed us to put a stall up to sell t-shirts, calenders and wristbands throughout the night. The dance society also very kindly donated all procedings from their programmes to BoardFree.
During the week I didn't do very much, mainly down to illness, but spent a great day watching Adam Sandler films with my housemate Bee, who was also ill. Such a funny, funny man! Dave has been away snowboarding in France for the past week with his family. Very jealous! Becki took full advantage of Dave's absence by pretty much ditching the BoardFree diet which up until now she had been doing so well. I was very disapointed (I'm wagging my finger at you Becki) to hear this and even more disapointed when i found out it had been going on all week. She even had the cheek to leave me at the BoardFree stall to go out and have fag. I think using the excuse that Dave has been away for the past week is a poor one. I really want to help you out Becki but you can't expect us to help you if you don't want us to.
On a lighter note, I nearly got set fire to at paintballing. It was my friend Rob Stacey's stag do and a group of us went paintballing near Cardiff. Now i know its very unlikely but if you are ever in the situation where you are with Phill Stacey (Rob's brother) and he has a smoke grenade, then my advise is to stand behind him, about 50m away! The 1st attempt saw Phill drop the smoke grenade at out feet, right next to his gas cylinder and the 2nd attempt landed at my feet whilst I was taking cover on a bridge. The leaves around my feet promptly started burning, forcing me to do a little dance before getting shot in the arm! All in all though it was a great day and I wish Rob all the best.
This coming week is looking very promising. The Drama society are performing their play, "A street car named desire" at the Dylan Thomas centre and have also allowed us to set up a stall to sell BoardFree related items. The stall will be there for 3 nights. Next weekend, Becki, Dave, Simon and myself are off to London (Rae and Phil are slacking!! Only joking, they have a very important meeting to eat lots of nice food!). This weekend will be great for BoardFree because we will be mingling with other skateboarding types in Hyde park to raise awareness. We are also hoping to make a skating London video (If anyone has a giant Kangaroo costume please let me know!) and perhaps meeting the legend that is Jonathon Ross.

Thats all for now folks, Thank you for reading.

End of an Era, a really long one!

Hello peeps,
You will all be glad to hear that yesterday I handed in my 20'000 word MSc dissertation on the Ecology of American Mink in the Glamorgan Area. Only six months late! I was warned beforehand that it would be an anti-climax.........and it was. There was no well done, no pat on the back, just a pile of forms for me to fill out including writing my address down 5 times on the same form! So it was a bit disapointing and my hand hurt from writing! I also had to pay a small fortune to get it all printed out at a local printers. I would have just done it at home had I known how much it would cost. 204 pages in total, costing a mere £39.02! I was shocked too!

Anyway, now thats out the way I can concentrate on BoardFree 110%!! Oh and i need to get a job. It hasn't all sunk in yet, but as the days pass I get more and more excited about the big trip to Oz. Only 204 days to go!! In this time I must raise £3,000 for my trip by fair means or foul. I have several options including becoming a guinea pig for the good of the medical profession. I hear it pays reasonably well. My housemate Bee has kindly been sourcing suitable jobs for me and is dead set on me becoming a milk sampler. I'm not so sure. I explained that you don't actually get to drink the milk, just test it. Otherwise........

Dave is galavanting off on holiday to the Alps tomorrow and I am looking forward to the list of BoardFree jobs he will have no doubt prepared for me to do whilst he is away. It will be the first time that I will be able to fully concentrate on BoardFree without the thought of my dissertation hindering me. I have also been enroled to film a fashion show this friday, during which the lovely BoardFree clothing will be modelled and the week after, man a stand selling BoardFree calenders and t-shirts at a dance society perfomance.

In two weeks time we are planning on hitting the streets of London to raise peoples aweness of BoardFree and I am really looking forward to this. The whole team apart from Rae and Phil will be together in matching hoodies, pestering members of the public! It will be great!!

I will endevour to keep you updated more often now I am a free man.