A weekend of drinking and water sports – in the freezing arctic winds – has left me somewhat destroyed.

Skimboarding at Beadnell Bay

Getting back to the desk and the safety of the internet landscape was pleasant, untill it all kicked off again.

Lobster Pot design for a business card

James has to hand in his final photography project on friday, and with the seagulls not playing-ball, i was roped in for an all-day photo-shoot and editorial profile to complete the job.

Then, I found out with a hugely sad heart that a good friend of mine from school, a fellow snowboarder, sailor, surfer and lover-of-life was killed in february whist cycling to work in Notting Hill.

Eilidh’s Memorial Ride from Giles Carlin on Vimeo.

The world is a more than a little worse-off without Eilidh Cairns in it. So sad.

And then then twenty minutes after finding out that news, this news arrived;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8035175.stm

Ben Southall is the new caretaker for the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia. Congratualtions Ben !!.

After last year and the trek around Africa (http://www.afritrex.com) he deserves some time off !.

I look forward to visiting….

Here’s the original Youtube clip for the job.

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Only a week ago I was sat with my new baby God-daughter Yasmine, holding her in my arms wondering where the instruction manual was, and if there was a helping hand to be found by searching Google.

Yasmine

Now a month old life is rushing-by for this newest of life’s, and her proud parents Pete and Laura are strapped-in for the rollercoaster that is a child.

They’ll do a fabulous job.

You have to remember that I dont ‘do’ babies, but as you get older, you tend to soften and mellow, as I am finding. The prospect of interaction with children no-longer fills me with fear and i admit that it is a new set of experiences and emotions that flow from it.

And then yesterday everything changed again.

Nobody likes funerals.

For some reason I seem to have had my fair share of interaction with death, but it still never makes it any easier.
I received a call from a good friend telling me of that our mutual good-friend Rob had died a few days earlier. Even now it still stings. But addressing it is all part of the process.

Rob was a good friend since the days of University in Exeter. We had partied hard in some amazing places. He had been with me when we broke into Glastonbury ten years ago. We had drunk all manner of intoxicating liquid over a vast number of occasions and years.

He will be sorely missed.

Robert 'Beardog' McGee

Thoughts and prayers go to all family and friends.

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