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01/07/2005

Max

By hairygoose
Max Max Max,
 
thanks for the music, it arrived today.
 
For those of you who dont know who max is, she was my last girlfriend before i left the uk. Today, i got three CD´s that she made for me.
 
These cheered me up – max always had a wide and varied taste in music, you never quite know what you will get.  It always makes me smile when i hear from max.  One day she will get her finger out of her arse and create her space so that i can link it from my page.
 
anyway – this got me to thinking about relationships and again i started to wonder why i was really not very good at them.  I was thinking about the lyrics to a song, beyond the sea, and began to wonder what it is i am looking for exactly.
 
of course, i always believe it is better to spend your life alone than with the wrong person but what if it is my vision of perfection that is wrong ?
 
I am sure you can physco analyse all of my writing and probably come up with the usual crap – i was abused as a child, or my father didnt love me , or a combination of both, but this simply isnt the case.
 
So i wonder, this place is full of gorgeous women who are either with someone or dont want to be with anyone – their reasons are their own, my portuguese not good enough to discuss it with them.
 
whats more, i am confused , yet i dont know what i am confused about – so how can i correct the confusion , if i dont know where it lies?  now you understand ?
 
today was indifferent – not for any particular reason, but today was a day that i need to let out a big sigh, clear my lungs and get on with it, but i just cant find that ´sigh´.  for three days now, my alarm has been ringing at 6.30 am so that i can head off in search of surf – it is now officially emmett season here, the only chance of a clear beach will be first thing in the morning and last thing at night, until september, and you know – i cant find any surf either,
 
today i was unhappy with where i live – want to know why?  because the weather was shite – or so i thought.  it wasnt really shite, the sun was out, the skies were blue, probably 28 degrees or more, a little windy but no surf.  Actually, i live in probably the best part of europe – so what made me unhappy?  i dont know.  what i do know is that when i wake in the morning, it will all be gone and the sun will be out, the skies blue, the surf crap but i will be happy again.
 
glad i got all of that off my chest!!!!  still none the wiser though.
 
Max – sort out your page – i want to link it.
 
çiao bebes

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01/07/2005

just for a change

By hairygoose
today, i got up at 6,30 again and went to the beach hoping for a wave – tomorrow , i am going to sleep in!
 
loads of work to do today, so i better get a move on.

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30/06/2005

change of topic

By hairygoose
i realised that i had been talking about surf too much so will change the subject for a while.
 
started hunting for some properties again, will be looking at one tomorrow hopefully, with the lady that owns it and all of the ownership papers too.
 
no problem with traffic, there is donkey access only – thats the official line for not having a street wide enough for  a car.
 
it is very cheap or so i am told, just 7000 euros, maybe tomorrow i will know more.
 
watch this space
 
something that has been bugging me recently.  when you use ebay and people wont post overseas – why?  you gotta go to the post office anyway, what difference does it make where you post it to? the cost is met by the buyer!  some people can be so dumb

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30/06/2005

morning at the beach

By hairygoose
hit tonel at 7,30 looking for a surf this morning.  the wave wasnt quite enough to suit up and go in, so i just stood for a while, with the sun on my back and a slight offshore breeze, looking out to sea and watching the small waves hit the sand.
 
of course, that made me think about all of my chums in the uk and i wondered what you all would be doing at 7,30 am.
 
i still think i have the better life.
 
much talk about a fresh swell coming in for the weekend but i try not to listen to all the would be forecasters – the only real way to tell is to go to the beaches yourself.
 
will check again at lunchtime to see if there is anything woth getting wet for.

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29/06/2005

no surf today

By hairygoose
and no more free accomodation for you holiday makers.
 
beatrice nailed me yesterday for an extra 50 euros because of the amount of visitors i have had.  electricity and water……….i guess it wasnt too bad, my sister and lindsey came for a week, christine for 8 days, alex for a week, marilia and xana stayed for a weekend so all in all, not too bad.
 
I now have portuguese childrens books to read as part of my language classes, my pronunciation is not the best and sarah figured this would be a good way to improve.
 
seems this week has been the week for all suppliers sending the wrong car parts – they dont seem too bothered when they get it wrong – just the portuguese way

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28/06/2005

i got clobbered

By hairygoose
my landlady finally clobbered me today for all of my visitors that had been staying for free – cost me another 50 euros on top of my month srent – bummer, the cost of friendship!!!
 
went for my language class this evening and afterwards my prefoessora showed me a few properties that are for sale, i have seriously got the itch at the moment, i feel a purchase coming on soon – no doubt it will all be listed here so keep looking.

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28/06/2005

dear dilema

By hairygoose
do i go for a surf at lunchtimes or go for some dinner ?

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28/06/2005

two blow outs in one week

By hairygoose
what is goiing on?

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26/06/2005

sunny sunday afternoon

By hairygoose

spent the day at tonel beach, well the afternoon any way, not much in the way of surf but at least something to ride.

glorious sun all afternoon and water so warm that an hour and a half in the water in just shorts was fine, didnt get cold once.

Last night we hit lagos.  first place we tried was a place called the red eye bar – typical scum dive as you might guess.  lots of pissed aussies and english tarts looking for a fluid exchange – we left there very quickly.

next stop was a typical portuguese place, the bouncers look you up and down to see if you will fit in, they only let good people in, no tourists.  place was amazing and local too. local music and a local attitude to partying.

i left alex there at 3am when i was so tired.  i didnt really sleep at the beach on friday night so i needed to catch up. tonight alex is going to a beach party at Alvor, along the south coast with two of marilias friends , Luis and Xana.

enough for now

 

 

 

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25/06/2005

a new style of surf

By hairygoose

so last night we hit Zavial beach at midnight with the beach tent and surfboards.  spent the night under the stars , me , alex and james, 8 bottles of sagres bohemia and a bottle of black label.

what a cool night, i cant believe that i hadnt done this before.  the stars were amazing, no light polution from towns or anything so the sky was full.  the moon was three quarter which meant the beach was well lit.

we left at 7.30 am and headed west for a surf at cordoama before returning to sagres for breakfast on the square at Barbugem.

then, this afternoon we got bored with surfing so took the air bed to tonel. me and alex paddled it out amongst all the other surfers who couldnt really believe what they were seeing.  we finally managed to catch a couple of good ones before getting seriously dumped on the shore break.

Also met with Theresa, a rather sweet spanish chick that works in the bubble – seems i am now learning spanish and portuguese!

 

tonight we hit Lagos for a night out with the tourists – more tomorrow.

 

ate amanha

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