Another test from monocle, correct blog chosen this time…I think
Hopefully this forecast of 200mm over the next 4 days is wildly inaccurate!
🔗 Dylan Graves Surfed One of Australia’s Rarest Novelty Waves
The wave only breaks a few times a decade — when the swell direction, tide, and wind all align — and this was one of those magic days! At a spot I’ve always wanted to go!
Back in the 90’s I was lucky enough to surf Newcastle Harbour a bunch of times. You really don’t want to hit the bottom! 🤕
🏀 Did not see the Knicks making it past Boston…and then they did, pretty impressively too! 👏
📺 The Great North has been one of my favourite discoveries this year, super funny, really dry humour, and quite weird.
And there’s 5 seasons of it! 🐻
The rain continues to fall here in Newcastle. 30mm in the last 24 hours, that’s on top of all the rain we’ve had since mid-March. I’d guess we’ve had 1000mm fall across that period, April had >640mm alone.
No chance we’re playing football this weekend. That’ll be 6 rounds washed out so far! 🤯
We’re had so much rain this year. April was super wet, we had around 620mm of rain across the month. With the constant wet and humid conditions, mushrooms and other fungi have been popping up all over the place.
📺 Loved the second season of Andor! I think I’m going to rewatch it from the very first episode through Rogue One seeing as that portion of the arc is pretty much complete now.
Always dropping my glasses!
I bought new prescription glasses a month or so ago, normally I get whatever Specsavers have the 2 for $199 deal on, but this time I splurged and bought 2 pairs of Rayban’s that ended up costing me $800+ after the private health rebate.
They’re comfortable to wear, they suit my face, I think they look pretty good…but they have got to be the worst glasses I’ve ever bought as every day I have to re-tighten the screws.
As I don’t need to wear them full time, only for reading, I often hang them on my shirt, but due to the arms needing to be tightened every day they pretty much fall off onto the floor whenever I bend over to pick something up, leading to them getting scratched up.
I think I’m going to have to get some of those lame glasses straps for them, like those neoprene ones surfers wore in the 80’s, or the beaded ones that the nosey receptionist from various 80’s and 90’s movies…not sure if I’m ready for that look yet. 😝
Out on water near Bolton Point, looking north toward Warners Bay. Not a fish to be found, at least the view was good.
Heading up the Hunter River toward the Stockton Bridge.
🎥 Watched: The Killing Game
When a hitman is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues.
Not a bad movie, full of all the cliches you’d expect from the genre, kind of a fun “John Wick” vibe.
🎥 Watching: MaXXXine
In 1980s Hollywood adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
There’s a certain weirdness and awkwardness that Mia Goth brings to her roles that works quite well for the characters she tends plays.
🎥 Watching: Sicario
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
I think I maybe expect too much from other people. Hard not to when you both signed up to and agreed upon the same narrative. Frustrating.
I am very unsure about a whole raft of things going on in the world at the moment, not just the whole world, but also my own world. Challenges all around, some people are rising to the battle, others just tossing the towel in.
Where to next, who knows…
Hello Monday, what have you got in store for me?
Interesting couple of days at the Sports Club. The President resigned, the Board accepted it, I was nominated as the new President, I accepted. So yeh, I’m the President of Alder Park Sports Club now. 🤯
⚽️ Arsenal’s lack of depth is just so frustrating. Ugh.
The Tiktok ban in the US is a just couple of days away, it makes me chuckle when I see people promoting they’re moving to RedNote or Lemon8 knowing that they’ll likely face the same issue. RedNote is pretty much Chinese Government run, and Lemon8 is owned by the same company as TikTok. 🤯
⚽️ Good win by The Arsenal over Tottenham! We’ve gotta get better at taking controll of the game, less wasteful with our opportunities, but hey, a wins a win! LFG!
⛳️ Tiger Woods walking out to Eye Of The Tiger in today’s TGL match is gold! His little smirk, 100% taking the piss, love it!
⛳️ Played Waratah Golf Course this morning with Travis. Struck the ball reasonably well, and finished under my handicap, but felt like I should’ve done better…those double bogies really stung!
⚽️ My football year pretty much starts today, we’ve got a preseason meeting with the parents and players tonight online, all the teams are back training this week, so I probably need to start giving it some attention. Feels like it gets earlier and earlier each year.
⚽️ Congratulations to Crystal Palace Football Club on winning the English FA Cup overnight.