The Temptation of Panache : What should he do?

[Detroitpete]

Jamie,

If you were my size I'd tell you to cease the kilt buying, package everything you have and send it to Detroit But that would not be entirely supportive of your dilema, so how about...

Wait a tad more on the wet suit if you absolutely can, With end of the season passing, you may be able to get an even better deal.

My advice for every question about the correct time to buy a kilt or kilt goodies is as always...NOW. But then again, I've been told I need 'help'.

Great tip on the 'kilt fund' !

[McMurdo]

(FYI: To everyone else, Robert is a very, very tall guy!)

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

Robert calls Big Mikey, Lil guy

I'd say go for the wet suit as well, I can't believe I'm saying it but there you go, enjoy life enjoy the ocean I mean you are that close to it.

[Panache]

Well for a bunch of kiltoholics I'm surprised how many of you would urge me toward a wetsuit!

I just went down to the grocery store and cashed in my loose change in one of those machines to see how much I really had. My total was about $45. Not quite enough for the suit I had been eyeing but I thought I would figure out what my size was and then wait a week or two.

So I went down to Play it Again Sports to do a bit more research and found a used but perfect condition half wetsuit in my size for $29.99

It seemed like a good deal so I bought it.

The brand is "Body Glove"

I came home and tried it on and it was a good fit. Standing there in front of the mirror I couldn't help but pick up my new boogie board and speculate if this might be considered an early mid life crisis

I do know that it will be fun to start bugging Sinbad and Xena with "When can we go the beach? I want to go to the beach? Can we go to the beach?"
(this is what they often do to me and my lovely F-H.C.A.G.)

Thanks for all the input folks

Pictures certainly not to follow!

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[Canuck]

$15 left....hmmm..... accessories...neoprene pith helmet!

[Raphael]

Pictures certainly not to follow!

No Picture from Panache wearing his new wet suit?! Shocking!

[Panache]

You did read the bit where he said he was 41?

HEY!

I have a solution, offer some of the sporrans, do you need 9 sporrans? for sale, and maybe get both.

Perchance Sir have you been talking with my lovely wife?

For the record...

Yes, I need my nine sporrans!

(Will it work with a flat cap?)

Somewhere in the Highlands of Scotland, Jock Scot twitches and reaches for his gun...

You forgot a wetsuit "pro": Neoprene is sexy. So I propose you try a well-fitting one on in the company of your ravishing wife and let her decide.

I had not thought of this!

I fear we will get to see Jamie in a full body cast after he breaks a lot of bones trying to boogie board. I am, after all, a good deaL older than Panache, but I do know that at 41 I did not bounce the way I did at 21. He sounds like a good candidate for a broken hip.

HEY!

...With all that being said...make sure your suit and fins don't make you look like a seal! And if you wonder why...go down to the little lighthouse museum on the overlook point and check out the board with the great big teeth marks in it. We love having you on the forum, so avoid those big whites

How does one "not look like a seal" ?

Finally, remember not to mix-up language conventions. "Dude" and "gnarly" don't see quite as appropriate at highland games

Does this work the other way as well?

I'm worried that I might seem out of place saying:

"Excuse me Sir, were you planning on taking yon upcoming wave? If not I should be quite happy to take this opportunity to take advantage of it."

$15 left....hmmm..... accessories...neoprene pith helmet!

Don't tempt me Robert!







Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[Old Hippie]

"Everybody come surfing
Surfing in the UK?"

The Battlefield Band: Just Another Surf Group From Benbecula.

Or so they've advertised themselves, anyway...

Yer 41. I remember what that was like. Yer feelin' like ya oughta do something while yer still "Old enough to know better and young enough to keep tryin'."

All along I was gonna come down squarely for the sporran, because I know how bad it sucks to bust yerself up past the age of 25. But hey, if we all said, "get the sporran" you'd feel real old all of a sudden.

So get in touch with your gnarly side. Just remember to spend some time stretching first, board with a clear head and quit before it starts to be work. Now suit up and get out there where all the young dudes can look at you and say, "Did you SEE that old guy?"

Besides, I'm 48 and it's why there's a Landyachtz Bamboo Totem longboard hanging on the wall in my office. I don't ride often, but I like to go in style when I do.

Cheers!

:::Infra Kiltum Veritas:::

[WeaselMender]

Well for a bunch of kiltoholics I'm surprised how many of you would urge me toward a wetsuit!

I just went down to the grocery store and cashed in my loose change in one of those machines to see how much I really had. My total was about $45. Not quite enough for the suit I had been eyeing but I thought I would figure out what my size was and then wait a week or two.

So I went down to Play it Again Sports to do a bit more research and found a used but perfect condition half wetsuit in my size for $29.99

It seemed like a good deal so I bought it.

The brand is "Body Glove"

I came home and tried it on and it was a good fit. Standing there in front of the mirror I couldn't help but pick up my new boogie board and speculate if this might be considered an early mid life crisis

I do know that it will be fun to start bugging Sinbad and Xena with "When can we go the beach? I want to go to the beach? Can we go to the beach?"
(this is what they often do to me and my lovely F-H.C.A.G.)

Thanks for all the input folks

Pictures certainly not to follow!

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

If there are no pictures it DID NOT HAPPEN

Weasel :ootd:

[McClef]

Perhaps that is becuase there isn't all that much surfing and boogie boarding in the Uk Trefor?

To the best of my knowledge the musical group "The Beach Boys" didn't sing all that much about catching waves down the Thames

"Everybody come surfing
Surfing in the UK?"



Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

There are several surfing sites here - Newquay in Cornwall, Whitesands Bay near St Davids here in Wales for example.

River surfing might be possible on the Severn Bore but it wouldn't look very spectacular.

[skauwt]

Perhaps that is because there isn't all that much surfing and boogie boarding in the Uk Trefor?

To the best of my knowledge the musical group "The Beach Boys" didn't sing all that much about catching waves down the Thames

"Everybody come surfing
Surfing in the UK?"



Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

you`d be surprised at some of th beachs for body boarding and surfing brassie just down from ayr is one Ive been to and then theres port rush in northern Ireland then those deserted areas up the coats and north.... id avoid anything on the north sea side but if you have children then you'll be alright