Morning, I hope all is groovy. All groovy here. Went on holiday for a week. Had a fun time in the French Atlantic waves, wife and kids went surfing, I went drinking and watching all the trés chic French people.  

In other news the Olympics have started and I love the Olympics, spending any free time trying to watch as many events as possible. Watched the surfing this week, the bow and arrow stuff, the weird shooting, rowing, sword fighting, canoeing, bmxing, handball, waterpolo, fast walking, cross country bike larks, ping pong and the gymnastics. Although the gymnastics has been slightly ruined for me as my wife pointed out that one of the commentators on the BBC sounds exactly like Hacker the dog on Children's TV. 

More tees coming next week, due to popular demand. Also, I suggest spinning The Journey Of Persephone today / this weekend as Bob Mandel who wrote and arranged it died this week. RIP Bob. What a great and charming man.   

I started a new instagram feed this week. @groovy_watch_guy. My dad used to mend watches so I have always liked them. I have quite a good collection now and I'll be posting up interesting ones, possibly alongside "themed" LPs, and selling some too. 

In the meantime here is Crystal Voyager, a classic surf movie that I told a few young surfing dudes about last week. The modern surf lot seem to have no idea what I am talking about when I go on about things like the "short board revolution", but the main thing is basically if you have not seen this film it is incredible (and is a follow up to an earlier surf film by George Greenough). And George still surfs everyday, still wears no shoes and still cuts his own hair. 

I'm now off to cut my own hair.

Thanks for listening as always

Jonny

 

New Patreon Show drops today. Number 131. Total bliss, apparently, with some old surfing.