It's hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since my last post. Sychrinicity seems to be at play here. So much has happened but not much has changed, I'm sitting in Number 20, The Football World Cup of 2010 has been and gone and most of my friends seem to be shipping out this season for pastures new. So still in Penryn? That would be a resounding yes, but have put myself out of any kind of social action over the last few months and by that I mean partying. So if you haven't seen me about I've mainly been in bed sleeping and considering the prosepct of and enitrely new life down under or at the very least a new African Adventure.
About this time last year I sent three weeks delivering a yacht which didn't really sail that well from Ardrossan to Gibraltar, we were suppose to travel all the way to Turkey but the bastard owner was such a prick there was no avoiding a stop off in Morocco and jumping ship at Gibraltar. Crossing the Gibraltar straights without a working compass in a force 8, that was a little exhilarating. With a twat that supposedly had twenty years of sailing experience but didn't know that a shipping lane had two sides! Despite the fact he'd spent most of those years sailing in the Firth of Clyde? Spot the deliberate mistake..... Captain Pig Bar saved the day though.
I got to spend some time with my English family (Shhh don't tell anyone). Christmas was spent with Damon, Nina and The Black Santa of Guadalope.
New developments,The Independent School of Art, was officially founded dropping the name Falmouth Free School after the Tories stole the term 'Free School'. ISA has bee running for six months now. We've been providing arts lectures on a donation basis at the St Gluvias Church Hall, Penryn, they've been pretty well attended overall and we seem to have developed a good core of attenders and contributors that help us set up and stuff. you can check out our newly started blog at http://isaassembly.tumblr.com
At the same time I started to make some dismal attempts at my Work-Shift project http://www.workshift.info which will be finished sometime around 2050, if it ever properly gets started.
Cornwall wide the best event thus far was the unveiling of the Drummer which had been eight years in the making by Tim Shaw. It's a very powerful 15ft bronze sculpture in the centre of Truro on Lemon Quay.
That's the main points of interest of the year well except of course Victor but that a short novel I'm not about to start now.
