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Posts by peterbowes

the glass brasserie – a review of events.

Noisy rips them down one by one, stares at them the way a man stares at a ransom note - and he immediately starts shouting at the nearest three people.
Join us in a Luke Mangan kitchen as we do lunch.

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why kneeboard riders cannot be trusted

Kneeboarders ..! All that pretentious humility.

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Letter to mr. gordon merchant am osa – billabong doesn’t have to suck.

This is what you were Mercho, and you have to ask yourself - where did that guy go?

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surfing elitism and what often goes wrong. meet no-nails knut wrangle.

A surfer is able to maintain a mystic stoicism that even the most beautiful women are unable to penetrate. Waimea does that to you, or Malibu.

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photo gallery

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main beach byron bay, reading waves and oral sex.

Nobody else can catch him. They're just milling around out there getting closed out and whumped as he streaks out of the pack again.

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being a surfer and losing condition. the wetsuit zip.

This ocean sport has no rules and no joining fees - it's open slather out there and egos play with whales.

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postcard from suffolk park

Two women lying face to face by the low dune, talking. Miranda Kerr with her back to me and a dusky Nefertiti topless. Just a glance.

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the road trip –

This year he wants a shot at Lennox and the longer the bastard talks the bigger the chance is that we will actually take him out there.

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postcard from the goldie

Surfing, satin sheets and red fingernails.

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longboarders, how to deal with them one at a time. with prejudice.

Once longboarders were like us; savage and uncompromising, greedy and slit-eyed, cold-blooded and cunning. Handsome, virile and able to leap tall buildings with a single stride.

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lennox head is for learners.

How can it bad be to have thousands of Japanese and Brasilians going home with no idea as to how to ride a wave, despite the lessons.

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surfing food and women – the bawley pizza

The hidden right that rears up around the headland down there and travels 300 yards to its brutal end against the cliffs. More unforgiving slabs.

But first, dinner.

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where is christian fletcher on this?

I'm for promoting this image. Surfers were always meant to be ungovernable.

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the corporation and what troubles you

Everybody in marketing plays squash and lives close to Darlinghurst Road. You suspect their sexuality, generally speaking.
And nobody knows the feeling.

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how to get the girl. the australia day technique.

The runaways. Revisited.

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the lennox. lunch.

Gone are the suntanned thugs who would lean over the balcony and chuck empty kegs onto the roofs of cars fleeing back to Sydney.

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australia day, as it were

Jimmy's no problem, if he wants trouble then happy days eh?

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california omelete. a road recipe.

food and surfing - then everything else

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sausages and ginger marmalade

Police have charged two men after allegedly seizing cannabis plants worth more than $3 million from a property near Tenterfield / Kyogle

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