Its booked n confirmed… woop wooop!

The last few finer details are still tbc but the flights are booked, I’m off on 4th Nov and come back 3rd Dec… 3 weeks in Sydney catching up with old friends, spinnin some tunes n moochin about.. then 4 days and a gig in Bangkok on the way back… winner!!!

Occasionally I google my sites, certain key words and things to see where I (or my clients) sit on google ranking… I don’t think I’ve ever googled “alukeonlife” before but I found this reference to my site on bloguniverse:

http://www.alukeonlife.com

A veritable buffet of entries ranging from the appetisingly optimistic ideas of its writer (Luke) for improving ones life through meatier reflections on the wider world occasionally infused with spicy random but often intriguing facts and tangents

hahaha

I get a name check, quote and link in a Bournemouth council report… random eh?

Kinda cool and scary how much of my life can be googled if you use the right phrases

Logged into the blog today to see this cheery message…

Wooooooo! Fingers crossed this continues, but i’ve had zero spam since I added akismet to my blog… wish they could do the same for my email…

Armadillos!! For no real reason other than I found it while looking for something else…

FSM* on a bike – swimming in the sea was hard work!!

Thanks mainly to the biggest waves I’ve EVER seen in Bournemouth, without a storm, Doh!!

Slightly scared I entered the sea with Mike as a safety (on waveski) swam for about 45mins and although I didn’t cover the traget distance at all, I’m very pleased with the swim. Swimming with the current was ok (as per the actual swim) back against it was 5x harder, I feel like I’ve had a good workout.

Learnt a load of useful (ish) things:

1) with a wetsuit its a lot easier to float/tread water – one of my worries for doing the swim was getting cramp or stitch and having to float for a bit vs swimming in to shore and not actually doing it all in 1 go. No longer worried about that.

2) My wetsuit rocks. Kept me warm, didn’t impair my swimming at all.

3) The key pocket thing kept my keys safe! Wooo!

4) I can swim in amongst big waves out of my depth, comfortably for a long time – nice to know if I’m ever in some sort of boat accident! hahaha

5) Mike’s well out of practice on a waveski I think I was more of a safety for him! (Call that a roll? Looked more like a “capsize wriggle splash aaaaah glug now-I’m-off-the-board-crap” to me!)

6) I’m going to be thirsty when I finish the swim.

7) Its harder to judge distance in the sea than I expected, I felt like I was getting nowhere for ages because all the landmarks and reference points are a LOT further away compared to a pool.

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*Luke is a confirmed pastafarian.

UPDATE: oops posted the vids and somehow deleted the bumf I’d written…

FIRE radio is moving to a new home, which is kinda cool as.. well its a bit knackered… but kinda sad in that 1) it’ll no longer be right near my flat and 2) the old studios have been a 2nd home for years.

So I felt I needed to record a vid of the studios when I recorded my last show there last night. Here they are: