My SUP buddy Cam B announced today that he is a grizzly bear stand up paddler... that's to say, his board is going into hibernation until the weather warms up again in Spring. Given that this is my first winter since discovering SUP, I have to ask, how do we isolate and stigmatise such softness? I'm thinking total social annihilation.

Get him to watch this old classic

Leave him at home...I love winter in Vicco....when the temp hits single digits so do the crowd numbers....****ing softies

JonathanC said...



You have a tie on, what the hell were you thinking

Yes I think Uncle Chop-Chop thought I was a narc.

PTWoody said...

Yeah I could do that. Or I could take him down the road to visit with a bloke who is the spitting image of that Ronnie Johns guy...

Isn't there one on every street corner in OZ already???

I'd just commissioned him to do a painting so I was relatively confident that he wasn't going to kill me. Though you can see the size of that hand would easily wrap around my neck.

Hey PT, is Mr. Read still painting?. Any exhibitions coming up?

log man said...

Hey PT, is Mr. Read still painting?. Any exhibitions coming up?

He was still painting around this time last year. He hasn't been well at all but I think he's still at it. Don't know about any new exhibitions but you should check out ebay as that is the outlet that he sells through. The pawn shop in the photo is run by a colourful character named Frank, who conducts the Ebay auctions for Chopper. You can commission specific paintings through Frank. You can also see some of the paintings in the shop. It is located in Johnson St Collingwood. If you're able to get to the shop to pick up a painting, Frank makes every effort to arrange a meeting with Chopper.