The Great Carve Shed giveaway

Has your shed had it’s day?

Is it so bulging with boards the roof is coming off?

Maybe there is no room for you, your sleeping bag and the quiver after you just popped out for milk and came back two days later…

Maybe you have an 8’x6′ bit of land in St Ives you want to develop and sell to a second home searcher for £2 mill…

Well, fear not! Because this bad boy could be yours in our Great Carve Shedstore giveaway!

Shedstore will send this 8×6 Apex Overlap garden shed worth £229 direct to the competition winner.

You can live in it, DIY in it, put your quiver in it, or just lock yourself in when you are hungover. Hell you can even store gardening equipment in it! Up to you…

All you have to do is email [email protected] telling why you need this shed so bad. Funniest reason wins. (UK entries only – sorry!)

Doctors give Surfer a strong painkiller during an op. Hilarity ensues…

A strong painkiller causes a surprising reaction when a patient has to have his fractured ankle manipulated back into place.

So many catch phrases so little time! “Snake tubes”, “Feel the burn” and the unforgettable “Can I ask you a couple of questions?” “How rad am I?”

More from Scotland’s Superhospital – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p124y

Picture Organic clothing launch ‘Naturalprene’ wetsuit range.

Picture Organic clothing have launched into the wetsuit market with a new wetsuit range made from Naturalprene.

“We searched for a sustainable and responsible alternative to the rarely recyclable and polluting neoprene: “a high quality wetsuit, following our 100% eco-friendly vision”. So, instead of synthetic rubber, we use a natural one which permits to reduce by half the carbon footprint !

“The NaturalPrene stretch technology produces a wetsuit made of 85% natural rubber from a Malaysian plantation and 15% synthetic chlorine-free rubber (made from plants). We used a revolutionary production process, integrating micro particles that enable NaturalPrene to extend up to almost 4 times its original size and solvent-free water based glue to paste the recycled polyester lining, which permits maximum comfort and ultra-fast drying.”

The crew also integrated tech from other sports into their designs.

“MOTION PATTERN” is inspired by the triathlon’s wetsuits construction, allowing a completely free mobility of the shoulders – No seam under the arms, front chest or around the shoulder. Double Naturalprene thickness to protect your ribs. POWER GRIP is a unique silicone coating that provides more resistance in the water when paddling, which means more efficiency and less effort.

BLU Kicks off at Saunton

The first of the BLU events for 2017 was held at Saunton at the weekend. The competition got underway with the Juniors battling it out in the small onshore conditions followed by the Ladies and Mens Open. However as the tide dropped so did the waves and the competition was put on hold until the pushing tide in the afternoon. When there was no improvement it was decided to re-commence on Sunday. Competitors then went to either to Pigstock to see Reef, to the pub (Skindog bought a duck which was delivered to him in the car park on the Sunday!) or to Ramon’s wedding.

Thankfully the swell had picked up overnight and it was back on with some competitors a little worse for wear! The chest to shoulder high swell provided competitors with long useable waves. Ben Skinner and Jack Unsworth met in both the finals for the Open and the Single Fin with Jack taking the wins in both divisions. Jordan Zervas dominated the Juniors. Jen Pendlebury took the honours in the Ladies, Jason Gray the Masters and Colin Bright the Grandmasters. All in all a great competition. Thanks to all the sponsors – Finisterre, Ocean & Earth, The Saunton Café, The Thatch, Robies, and Submariner.

Results:

Mens Open: 1 Jack Unsworth 2 Ben Skinner 3 Ben Howey 4 Lewis Stritch

Ladies Open: 1 Jen Pendlebury 2 Emily Currie 3 Claire Smale 4 Jenny Briant

Single Fin: 1 Jack Unsworth 2 Ben Skinner 3 Steve Horn 4 Jen Pendlebury

Masters: 1 Jason Gray 2 Colin Bright 3 Adam Chell 4 Ray Lee

Grandmasters: 1 Colin Bright 2 Adam Zervas 3 Rich Unsworth 4 Tim Quick

U18 Boys: 1 Jordan Zervas 2 Tom Horn 3 Barnaby Innes 4 Alex Townsend

U18 Girls: 1 Beth Leighfield. 2 Stella Briggs. 3 Annie Young

U16 Boys: 1 Jordan Zervas 2 Barnaby Innes 3 Tom Horn 4 Alex Woodland

Words Rich Unsworth

22 year old Surfer Saves the World From Cyber Apocalypse

Happy days watching swells* to global saviour. Been a busy weekend!

You have probably all seen the news now – over 100 countries thrown into crisis by a ransomeware hack, NHS Trusts shutting down computer systems. Global telecommunications businesses are hit, Russian banks, you name it. It was carnage, an unprecedented cyber apocalypse. Well a 22-year old surfer from North Devon solved a problem the KGB, FBI and the rest of the world couldn’t.

We aren’t going name him, save for his Twitter handle of @MalWareTech, as it would add to his current woes of journalists camping out in his garden, tracking down friends and such. The man is busy trying save the world!

The only details you need for now is that he loves surfing, pizza (media making massive deal about this so I dare say he’s got a free table for life at Pizza Express? Huh?) and judging by his tweets he’s pretty funny.

For those surfers GCSEs etc it’s also interesting to note he is also self taught “I’m not a graduate,” he told one reporter. “I had planned to go to university but ended up getting offered a job in security a year prior, so I took it. I’m completely self-taught so in hindsight university would probably not have been worth the time or money.”

None of his friends actually knew what he did for a living/hobby.

So hats off to @MalWareTech . Hopefully someone will throw him a surf trip and some gear as reward. Going to be interesting to see where his life goes from here…

We shall leave you with some funny tweets describing his developing situation…

 

 

*The original twitter shot was RT from Luke Gartside