Shottingham

Met up my dear dear friend katie for tea/beer...as well as jayne. nottingham was almost nice in the summer sunshine

Snowboarding UK style

Another quick and unplanned trip back to the uk for work....so i decided to surprise all my friends, who i knew were going snowboarding in Birmingham. so i drove up from the south of england and made it just in time to surprise them all in the changing area before they 'boarded' (ahem) i had the foresight to bring my boarding trousers so was able to join them...once everyone had gotten their head around the fact that i was there...it was beginner 'ramp/jump' night which was great fun, and everyone managed to do something new that they hadnt done before...but was just fantastic to hang out with my best mates...we plan to go away together this season...and i cannot wait

Greeeen Daaay!

Managed to get hold of a much sought after ticket to see Green Day (thanks Keith). well, americans are extremely anal about many things, firstly, cameras werent allowed, of course, all phones have perfectly good cameras in them these days, but no, cameras werent allowed, so initially i was turned away, anyway, i went round the corner and actually put my camera in my shoe...so as i shuffled back to the entrance, i had a huge limp, and looked as though my left leg was 4 inches taller than my right leg...despite being metal detected, i still got in. the gig itself was great, well, apart from the corwd, it was like when i saw the arctic monkeys in oslo, in england you have proper mosh pits in the front, here, no such thing, just lots of fist punches in the air, but no movement at all..it was very very very lame, and very disappointing, not green days fault, but maybe american crowds are just as dull as the norwegian ones.

Houston Skate Park

Next to the festival i discovered the houston skate park...an amazing place that was opened in 2008. its about as cool as you can gt, very central, free to go on, and more importantly, there is no clique there, beginners appear to be very welcome...they also do skate lessons...of which, at 34 im seriously considering. such a great place

Another Houston Music Festival

You know..one of my concerns about moving to houston was that there wouldnt be any 'counter culture', and the longer im here the more cool things i discover about the city...that and having a very very cool houstonian friend in Randi to show me and my friends around. this was a music festival on a whole weekend right in the heart of houston. Such a good time, few beers, a few bands and good friends basking in the hot texan sunshine. i wsih there was more of this in houston though. the people that were there arent really that visible either, maybe most of them came across from the uber hip and alternative Austin. never the less...a great day

Houston Press Music Festival

$10, 6 venues, 50 bands. An all day urban music festival in H-Town, which was a pretty great day, not only discovering new bands but also new venues to frequent. Not a bad way to spend a lazy sunday

Night out

Continuing the catch up theme