No Jelly At The Party :(

It was my *cough* 50th Birthday on Tuesday and as I was down in Brighton for a few days decided to invite some friends along for a skate at Shoreham Skatepark.

The weather was dodgy all week but wasn't as bad as forecast on Wednesday, dry and windy most of the day in Brighton but then a big downpour at 3 o'clockish.

Me and the current Mrs Brown arrived by train just late enough to make sure that Trev and Gray had swept and dried the bowl and as we crossed the road to the park Nathan arrived.

We managed to skate until dark with only one small shower, then it was off to the Duke of Wellington where they had laid on a buffet, fireworks and folk singing, awesome.

Then Jelly turned up, gave me stickers and bought me a beer. Cheers.

Mrs Brown managed to snap us before the pub, l-r Nathan, Trev (cunningly hiding Trackers), Me, Gray.

Jelly Slams

Shot at Dagenham back in the days (2007) when Jelly used to travel further afield than Shoreham skatepark.

I just came across this when exploring my external hard-drive.

This cracks me up every time I watch it.

Happy 50th Des Mondo

I made the long trek to the far north (of Essex) for Des Jam.

The old fella was 50 yesterday, showing no signs of slowing down yet though.
Good job there weren't candles on his cake...

I had a bit of a bad day photo wise, the battery on the Canon is shagged and went flat after only 4 photos. Looks like I can get a 3rd party replacement for under 20 quid mind.
I'm also still struggling to get the settings right with the K20d and my timing was a bit out too.

Managed to get a couple of ones I was semi pleased with.

This guy was crazily good or maybe just crazy, this wasn't a make. He did drop in from here though and made it half way across the flat.

Sean Goff was there too, good to see him enjoying himself,  Rock 'n' Roll in the big bowl. The only semi acceptable shot I took of him.

Jellyhead was trying to wear the coping out.

Dean was too, in the pool...

...and in the bi bo

I managed a few scratchers in the pool, but still struggle in there with the uphill to the deep end.
I did hear a rumour that phase 2 of the park is planned and Dreamland are building a clover and a snakerun, fingers crossed it's true (and that they aren't uphill)

Back in 'Nam

Dagenham that is.

Found this pic by Jellyhead of a session from a few years ago.
I think this is the session when I got a parking ticket at Dagenham then went to the Rom and slammed in the pool on the first run hurting my wrist.

L-R Me, Dave The Bass, Craigee, Oliver, TonyB, Symo, Dave Bunton.

My legs are very white aren't they?

Close Up

Jellyhead with a near fisheye grind, will have to try that again but with the camera pointing in the right direction.

'ave it!

Yours truly shredding at Shoreham on Friday.
A top day out
Pic courtesy of Jelly. Cheers mate.

Crawley

Went to Crawley on Wednesday evening, good turn out of old blokes.
Hardly any BMXicans. Those that were there kept out of our way.

Here's Jellyhead in the bowl shot on my phone camera.

Cross Processed Jelly

I've just got some prints back from processing.
This was one of the rolls of slide film that Jellyhead gave me, it's Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Colour 100. I had it processed as C41 instead of E6 (basically treated as a print film and not slide) by Online Photo Centre, great service, posted to them on Wednesday and back today.
I ran the film through the Konica Pop that I got last year.

Jelly Close Up

Pity I muffed this one up.
It would have been a good shot if the focus was sharper and I'd have got the front of the board in.
Oh well, another day maybe.

Knit1

Went to Unit1 in Rochester on Saturday and met up with a few mates.
Dr Bill form Oz was feeling poorly so didn't come, whinging bloody Oztraylians.

Anyway Chris Ault (DDK represent) was there and pulled of this bloody big transfer across the driveway thingy.



Oh and this fella was there too...



Gnardog's drop in rail has gone now so don't know what he's gonna do when he returns.

More pics on me flickr