Caffein, craziness and commuting

It's been a crazy hectic week. I feel like I've been hit by a bus.

The only things that have kept me going during these surf doldrums have been great coffee, witty colleagues and my bad dress sense.

I believe a road trip might be required.

Have a great weekend, wherever your woody takes you.

Kind of Blue

Moon Wood Water Wood

Prankster Em

Today's post is dedicated to our work colleague and prankster Emma who leaves today to travel a different career path. Your random acts of daDa-ish humour have kept my spirits bouyant through some tough times. BIG thanks.

Surf Check #725000

Beannie? Check. Uggh boots? Check. Long corduroy trousers? Check Warm coat? Check. Winter? Check. All over the country, a million of us are doing the daily surf check. And in Brinetopia it is really really cold today. It always seems colder just after the sun comes over the horizon and the first zephyrs for the day start stirring the air - soft offshores, holding up the faces of the waves and shaking up my already shakey hands.

Surf Craft Permit

A little mix of film and digital, traditional and modern mals, last century and this. Josh Constable, former long board world champ doing the surf check at his local point break with an old six stringer strapped to the 1946 Woody, which doubles as the Noosa Longboards staff car.

Bleak n White

Air Mail

Forget retro '70's single fins, analogue cameras and Monkees style music. It's time to revive the ancient, totally manual arts of letter writing, postcard selection and air mailing. Sure, an email or a text is quicker. Sure, analogue is slower and less efficient - especially when you consider that you can send the one message to your 800 MyFace friends instantly. But that's the whole point. Hopping off the one way, snowballing quest for ever greater speed. For a little while anyway. 

Here at the Brine, we are doing our bit by searching out postcards that are so bland they are exciting in this post-logo mega-sponsored and branded world. Let's keep the world's postal workers in a job. So if you want to post the Brine, here's one of the places it should land. Happy writings. Bird is the word.

Brine     Time

PO Box 1289

Stafford  4053

Australia

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