Monthly Archives: February 2006

13/02/2006

ex girlfriends

By hairygoose
well, let me fill you in.
 
on friday, i had a text from my last girlfriend sandra – the infamous sandra, wishing me well in mallorca after reading an entry in my page from earlier that week.
 
Honestly – i thought that was very sweet of her – especially considering our previous communications werent exactly kind to each other.
 
Today – completely out of the blue and unprovoked – Verity text to say hi and that she enjoys reading my page.
 
so two ex girlfriends have made me smile – so please raise a glass and salute – TO EX GIRLFRIENDS!!!!
 
maybe it is time to have a photo selection of ex girlfriends – so get sending me those pictures – my ex girlfriends, your ex girlfriends , anyones ex girlfriends – especially if you are a lesbian,  you know where to send them
 
 
 
on saturday afternoon i finally found a wave. OK – it wasnt massive and it was far from perfection but after a long month or so on this island i was even considering riding white water slop.
 
I suited up and paddled out on the longboard to just beyond the `sweet spot´on a wave that seemed consistent. While i was sitting there straddling my board, watching the waves the fin of my board scraped on the rocks below – it was then that i realised how shallow the water was over the reef. the fin is just 8 inches long, admittedly the tail of the board was submerged a little but still – that was shallow water.  To get to my feet and ride a long way down the  line was the only safe bet if i wanted to miss all  of the rocks on a wipeout – but the wave was closing pretty quick and i seriously doubted i would get far enough down the line to be over sand when i needed to bail out.
 
I decided to move so that i was just hovering over the edge of the reef, at least then a take off and wipe out should see me pass the edge of the  reef.
 
I managed to catch a couple of below average waves until i ventured further across the bay, hoping to use some white water to gain speed before the wave re-formed.
 
Boy was that a mistake. The wave pitched real quick, the nose of my board went under so fast i had no chance of getting it back. Slam, i was on the bottom – dragged across two rocks and just as i thought it was all over – whack – my board planted me a good one right on top of my head!!!
 
I decided to get out after that – sometimes you just gotta quit!
 
i am firmly of the decision that a meditereanean wave is no where near as good as a porky one. I also reckon that is the reason why many of the spanish ride bodyboards instead of surf – the waves are just too sharp and quick for anything else.
 
so i wonder what is going on back home in portugal.
 
 
Work is fun, seems like i am permanently on cinderella which is not a bad thing. It´s a cool boat with a great crew. Andy the skipper knows his boat inside out. I always pictured ship captains as poncey farts but this dude seriously knows his stuff – and is pleasant to boot which of course makes work great fun and gives me loads of time to learn new stuff.
 
well, enough for now, i need to add some photos and then leave feedback on ebay
 
Alex you ponce – i finally got my indicator TODAY. more than six weeks after you broke it.
 
tomorrow is valentines day – i wonder if i will get any?
 
çiao for now – dont forget to send those ex girlfriend photos!

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09/02/2006

Getting a hair cut!!

By hairygoose
which one – i havent decided yet ! ha ha ha
 
 
saturday 09.30 that is the time, gonna have a little trim to keep me respectable.
 
so tonight – out of complete frustration for lack of surf – i took my longboard in for a paddle. was there any waves i hear you ask?  not a sausage, but i was sensing getting weak in the shoulders and i wasnt wrong!
 
i barely made the 100 or so metre paddle to the little island, and then back again.
 
all of the locals must have thought i was mental or something – just before sunset paddling around on my board like a fool.
 
 
tomorrow is friday and i have a full weekend work schedule so not sure when i will get back here again  – maybe a little time away will inspire me to write more of a masterpiece next time.
 
until then
 
 
keep warm

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08/02/2006

what did you do today?

By hairygoose
me, i found myself working in a space so small, when i took deep breaths my ribs expanded and touched an engine on one side and a generator on another – and to add to my pain, my chin was resting on my knees!
 
was a harsh day but the ride to work was gorgeous.
 
the ride to work is about 10 km and takes just over 20 minutes door to door. as i leave my flat, it is all down hill. the first up hill is very gentle and then drops into another big downhill into the next town.
 
The coastroad does this through two more villages until you run down the final hill into palma itself. Once in palma it is completely flat.
 
In the morning, before 8, the city is still to come alive, there are a few joggers, some other people out on their bikes heading to work and of course the early birds that just want to walk.
 
Riding along the prom is goreous, the open harbour and sea beyond, the yachts and cruisers worth millions, gently bobbing in the tiny swell, clear blue skies and the sun !!!
 
The ride home is equally as seductive until you get back to the hills.  On the way home, there are more uphills than down and you are also tired from your day of work, climbing ladders, up and down decks – scaffolding you name it. Tonight, i was too wiped out to make it without walking so had to walk the two last hills – can you believve that ?
 
tomorrow if i get home at a good time , i am taking the longboard to the beach for a paddle.  I realise i might look like an ass as there will be no swell but i have to get some arm excercise or when there is swell, i will have no strength at all.
 
One thing that is wierd to see, the tree lined avenues that have orange trees! in england you never expect to see an orange tree, i always imagined orange trees to be on a sort of órange tree farm´ but here, they line the side roads.
 
anyway, last night i slept like a baby – the first time in over a week. with my cold, i had to stop running and that left me with far too much energy to sleep for more than two hours at a time.
 
i think tomorrow is thursday? i am not sure.
 
lets try something new for the weekend.
 
if i dont know you – text me to say so +34 697 390 527 just make sure that your text says ´you dont know me but……………´  do it now

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06/02/2006

Do me a favour

By hairygoose
getting some good hits at the moment on my site and always like to read your comments when you can be arsed to leave them – but if you are anonymous – no-one knows who you are . i realise that might be the idea but then i have no idea who i am talking to – and i HATE that…….please please please please please tell us who you are.
 
anyway – added three new photo albums tonight so go and have a look at them all – i promise you will like them, and if anyone thinks i am too old to be skate boarding at my age – BITE ME!!!!  You will see a beauty ´toes on the nose´ride – oh yes.
 
the young lady that wiped out also managed to break her hand into the bargain – i take my hat off to her though – she never cried whimpered or bitched – she is a toughie – first time on a skateboard for her, and something tells me it might be the last too.
 
i am running out of time tonight so wont be able to write as much as i would have liked. got here late due to cycling to work and back today , then being mesmerised by anne robinson on the weakest link – dudes, that chick is hot!!!  i know i am bias, i know i like red heads – but man, she really has got it going on for an old chick.
 
anyway – max, i know you will be peeing in your pants at that – but remember – you are the oldest chick i have ever been out with !!!!
 
so what else, no surf so this weekend i am going to take the longboard for a paddle on my own beach. maybe paddle out to my island then drop off the side with my snorkel and see what i can find – that sounds heavenly but the water is very cold still.
 
tomorrow i can run again, my little legs were too tired tonight after i cycled to work and back today – a measly 20 kms. Palma looks good from a bicycle – apart from the old twat in the mercedes who turned across the cycle path to park without looking – good brakes on my bike – good job too.
 
anyway, i am back on ciderella now and probably for most of the week. re-plumbing an exit valve in the engine room.  this will make me swear a whole lot i promise.
 
I will be back by wednesday with more photos and stries, if you stop by, leave a message and tell me who you are.
 
until then
 
 
be good

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04/02/2006

having a saturday bitch!!!

By hairygoose
ok, let me get some stuff off my chest – firstly muslims!
 
i see they are kicking up stink about some danish cartoon – a cartoon, not real life. So they are not happy about this cartoon?
 
Personally, i was a little pissed off when two planes hit the world trade centre twin towers, i was also a little pissed when bombs exploded in the london underground, i was more than a little pissed off when i watched western hostages having their heads cut off with nothing more than a blunt bread knife on the internet.
 
So please, let me appologise on behalf of the danish paper that published that CARTOON. I am very very sorry.
 
 
The French
 
Love them or hate them?  i do both!  when they block their ports with trucks and our brit truckers are caught up in it – i hate them. I adore the way they have the arrogance to hold two fingers up to the rest of europe and the world when they want to do something that every one tells them that they shouldnt. I have two examples, the first, obviously the fact that they re-published the offending cartoons, no doubt with the accompanying head line ‘Le Bollocks’ and also cast your mind back to a few years ago when illegal imigrants were escaping from songatt detention centre in france and crossing the channel tunnel.  The brits asked the french government to move the camp away from the tunnel entrance – the french responded yes, if you pay for it – their reasoning was that if england wasnt such a soft touch , immigrants wouldnt want to go there !!!!  i know you all agree with that statement – and so did the government, they stumped up 12 million quid for the pleasure of moving a french detention centre!
 
lets not forget french women – all european women are very very sexy but the french women have that little bit more. when they speak in french i could just die, when they speak in broken english – i have to take a cold shower.
 
 
CD cases
 
we all own them and we all have exactly the same problem…………you get one that seems to stick shut. As you fiddle with it, you work it loose and it opens with a snap. Yep, that little snap was the hinge lug breaking off so that now the cover never stays on. OK it never jams again either but i am more than a little miffed to say that we can put man on the moon, measure a cars average speed over a mile and process a speeding ticket in seconds, complete open heart surgery, brain surgery all sorts of stuff but a simple plastic case that must cost all of 50 pence to make – not a chance mate!!!
 
French Cars
 
I love em – mike hates them – enough said!!
 
ok, my bitching is over.
 
tonight we are hitting the town – palma mallorca is going to be graced with my buff and studly good looks.  It has of course been well over three months since i last had sex – way back in october last year so i might be forgiven for going out on the pull tonight – however – instead, armed with my new digitial camera, i hope to catch some cool shots for the site. so dont forget to come back on monday for an update.
 
I am off now to look at the photos of portugal on my page – i am very very home sick!

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04/02/2006

just a quick joke – it made me chuckle

By hairygoose
Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman talking about how stupid their wives are-
 
Englishman says "my wife bought a car and she can’t drive"
 
Scotsman says "my wife bought a swimming pool and she can’t even swim"
 
Irishman says "you think they’re stupid well my wife went on holiday to greece with 50 condoms and she hasn’t got a cock"

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01/02/2006

multi – lingual

By hairygoose
so, my new work buddies are teaching me how to speak many new languages.
 
Ryan teaches me how to talk like a south african, paddy – like an irishman of course, Kade helps me to be native in Oz.  I am sure next time i speak to any of you – you will not recognise my voice.
 
I would also like to thank you for your massive response to my requests for text messages – i got a whopping 2 – yes 2 messages, one from cornwall and one from norway – thanks to faggot and carl oliver for those!
 
to answer your question carl, the melv craving lies dormant – one day i WILL get to the bottom of it and no doubt have polaroids to prove it.
 
The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed the change of my page name from Algarve Surf to The November Archives.
 
well today i was thinking and talking about my sexy ex girlfriend, Sandra.  You will find that very hateful e mail in my november archives on the bottom left of this page so feel free to take a look and have a chuckle at my expense.
 
While i was describing her to Ryan today , he asked why i dumped her, she sounds perfect.  I guess she was very sweet but sometimes your nerves get the better of you. Well in my case – my nerves always get the better of me.
 
as a treat tonight after work i went to the local shopping mall – Porto Pi – it was an absolute babe fest – i actually got scared and ran away.
 
Oh well – enough for now, dont forget to read my november archives to see just how spitefull women can be
 

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