Peghill

Cookie: sorry to hear about the knee, looks like I'll have to do a daytime skate on my own this week ... how long do you think till you can venture back?

When will we learn: I took a bad slam yesterday from a rock to fakie due to not being warmed up properly.

Grafitti update: Tony - I checked out Peghill this morning (too wet to skate) and there is yet more decent quality sprayed graffiti!

Cookie: sorry to hear about the knee, looks like I'll have to do a daytime skate on my own this week ... how long do you think till you can venture back?

not sure yet, at the moment it feels very similar to the last time I had a bad slam on it and needed an op. But the fact that I (stupidly) skated on it for another 90mins after the slam gives me hope that it may not be too bad, the next few days will tell I guess, if no improvement in a couple of days I will try and take advantage of my Bupa cover. These things are weird, sometimes an injury just takes ages to heal, other times it can feel real bad and a week later it is ok.

When will we learn: I took a bad slam yesterday from a rock to fakie due to not being warmed up properly

How you doing And - that's the longest I've seen you in one place post slam?

Grafitti update: Tony - I checked out Peghill this morning (too wet to skate) and there is yet more decent quality sprayed graffiti!

Cool - I'll check it out on the way to work next week.
Wet morning and my lad playing rugby early meant it was a dead cert fail for me.

Hankering for a day trip to an indoor bowl and ramps, good long session to make the mileage worth while, car full to share petrol. Give me an excuse to try out my new flask.

Looks like we're heading up tomorrow morn for a roll for old times sake, might see a few of you there.

Looks like we're heading up tomorrow morn for a roll for old times sake, might see a few of you there.

Dammit, wonder if my knee would survive if I strapped it up? probably be a bit stupid, but I'll see what the morning holds. If not I might just pop up with the camera or a flask or summat. What time you thinking Bob?

Looking at getting there for 8, be good to see yer cooker but don't you go badgering that knee any more!

Looking at getting there for 8, be good to see yer cooker but don't you go badgering that knee any more!

lol didn't wake up til 9. My patio was still wet so I assumed peg must be wet too, turned over and had another hours kip. Hopefully you didn't waste a trip up.

Didn't bother going down to Peghill today as it was still wet in Cheltenham, so i figured it'd probably be the same there.
Could do with an indoor park round here.

Looking at getting there for 8, be good to see yer cooker but don't you go badgering that knee any more!

lol didn't wake up til 9. My patio was still wet so I assumed peg must be wet too, turned over and had another hours kip. Hopefully you didn't waste a trip up.

No mate, wet as a cods pocket here too, so we bailed

Yep, way too wet at Peghill today ... hopefully next weekend? ... gonna try and skate there during the week as soon as there is a dry patch combined with a slack day of work ... !

when I realised it was pissing down at 7am I went back to bed...hopefully see you up thee next week lads

I suppose I picked a good time to have an injury.

If there is such a thing as a good time to be injured!!!!

Hope you back on your pins soon mate

Gibber..... wibble

Gibber..... wibble

Everything OK Tony? I can somehow see you with underpants on yur head and a couple of pencils up your nose

Everything OK Tony? I can somehow see you with underpants on yur head and a couple of pencils up your nose

Just waiting for a dry weekend. Had it good with the summer and now have to put up with the dross of the winter.

The weather is supposed to be alright tomorrow, but i can't make it, should be able to on sunday, but no doubt it'll be pissing down then.

Hmmmmmm, weather looks decidedly average. Time will tell.

Weather decidedly poor at the moment, it's wet out and the forecast for tomorrow is not encouraging:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/EnglandWest/Yate.htm

Maybe next weekend ... or the one after ... or the etc. ...

Weather decidedly poor at the moment, it's wet out and the forecast for tomorrow is not encouraging:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/EnglandWest/Yate.htm

Maybe next weekend ... or the one after ... or the etc. ...

My knee is about 85% now so next weekend should suit me fine, if you can book the sun in advance Andy that would be very nice.

And, I reckon you are a bit late submitting your sunshine request!
There doesn't appear to be any length of time without rain on the 5 day forcast - it's so frustrating.

This wet spell is going on and on and it's wet again today ... my optimism is dying ... looks like it's back to practising ollies on the hallway carpet!

Will probably hit horfield if dry 2moro aftnoon as it'll be the cleanest park to skate

It's been a good time to be injured, plus we have been super busy at work so it would have been dificult to fit in any skating anyway, but I may be tempted to try the knee out on the weekend if anyone is about Sun or maybe Sat.

Popped up horfield hoping for a skate but was still waterlogged bollox

I'll go to Peghill tomorrow if the weather looks alright.

A chance it may be dry Sunday

Can't do sunday, though i'll be in Hereford in the afternoon, might pop in to the park there if i can.

I'll be there Sunday if the weather improves dramatically! It might not be raining but it's still bloody wet out there.

Winterbourne would be possible with mop and blowtorch

Managed to get a skate up horfield this morn b4 the rain came.Had an hour b4 the scooters arrived twas good to get out again

Well done mate, my knee is improving all the time, I will be back on it as soon as we get a dry spell, will clear the crap off the micro this week for the winter season.

Peghill this Sat and Sun a.m. - well, it's pretty dry there at the moment, so barring heavy snowfall or unexpected rain, I should be there at first light.

I may well be joining you. At least Sunday, maybe Sat

Sat is going to be tough for me so Sunday looking most likely!! Be bloody good if we could actually skate - it's been too long. Cookie - any chance you could bring your roofing blowtorch along just in case it proves useful - will happily chip in for a new tank of gas for you!

Shit - just looked out of the window and it's snowing - fingers crossed for Sunday - either that or we'll just take up snowboarding the bowl

Managed to get forty minutes up horfield before the snow came.I'm sure the coping had ice on it as it was as fast as fuck.Just gotta grab what you can when you can at the mo

Snow on the ground here, no good today, and very unlikely tomorrow (Sunday), but you never know. And Steve no problem with the torch, that is the reason I bought it anyway.

looking pretty unlikely I think lads...think we'd need more than a few bottles of gas to get it skateable in this weather

Was there until nearly 9am this morning, not the best skating conditions: patches of ice in the bowls, but dry ... the whole thing feels very different in freezing temperatures.

I had 2 hours there from 10 til 12, no problems at all, apart from the first half hour I was bloody cold, it was -5C when I arrived. The blow torch and the mop soon sorted any small ice patches. Props to the kids who turned up on their own to skate in very cold conditions.

Hardcore sk8in good effort

Blimey gents - I took it for granted it would be un-skateable...... Doh! Did you have a camera, would have made some wacky photos.

Good effort!

Gutted - woke up and assumed it would be unskatable and didn't even bother to text And to ask! What a plank

Come on guys, get with the program

Check on MAS-Events all the time

Ah! Obviously didn't check the MAS-Events for the completely barmy skate haeds post

This weekend is a no.... no. regardless of conditions - Centre Parcs here we come, bit of luck there maybe some swimming outside whilst it is snowing.

And - finally got the change to the collection, bag full of scaggy coins but they didn't complain. A bit of a boost from the penny piggy bank made it £4.

Had a quick look this afternoon, with a little bit of work some of the park would have been skateable, but couldn't be arsed doing it on my own. Plus my knee is still aching.

I'm vaguely optimistic of getting to Peghill in the morning, weather looks sort of alright.

I'm vaguely optimistic of getting to Peghill in the morning, weather looks sort of alright.

It's possible, but all wet out this way at the moment, If dry at all then I probably wont go til a bit later, maybe 10ish, but will have to see what the morning brings

Skate report, sunday 12 dec a.m.

Inspected park at 8.40am and it's unskateable: the bottoms of the bowls are slippy due to a frozen damp layer.
Even when it thaws out, it'll be damp in the bowls.

Guessed as much when i saw the freezing fog up here, didn't really clear all day, thought about trying the metal ramp in Cheltenham, but that was lethal as well, roll on next spring..

Had a quick look at Peghill Sunday midday, half expected to see skate heads Andy and Cookie blasting away with a roofers torch. Mini half pipe area was still frozen in the shade as was most of the other shaded areas. Enough leaves in the green to make compost! Ripper still looking good, one has a top hat now!

Wifey looked to be slow on the uptake regarding the bones spf hint so I got them ordered at Rollermania.
Roll on Christmas morning.

Very skateboard bias Christmas list this year but t-shirts with skate logos are difficult to get hold of in xxl fat b@stard size

Gonna get wed aftnoon off so will try and av a skate somewhere

At the moment I think I'll be about on weds afternoon, depends on how work goes this morning ... anyway, post up where you might skate, I'm gonna look at Peghill later on today to see if it's skateable and clear out the leaves from the bowls.

Damm I'm fully booked with work this week, so no go for me. Knee is still crap anyway.

Have to work today, so not about to skate.
Was free yesterday afternoon, went up to Peghill cleared piles of leaves out of the bowls, but it is really wet up there and it's difficult to see it being dry anytime soon ... a lot of water seems to be coming out of the ground, well it must be as we've had no rain for ages ... and it's all supposed to freeze, so I would say Peghill is and will be unskateable this weekend, though I will check on Friday.

tried to get with the program and had a quick look at Peghill Thursday morning - damp and horrible.
Got carried away and had a look at Filton - hmmmm. Andy, Cookie and Lecky would have skated it I thought so off I went to get the kit out the boot. Started to rain when I got back to the car and my resolve to do hard core skating dissolved.

1" of snow this morning - I bet Andy is at Peghill with a snow shovel and towels

If the snow was a bit deeper (maybe it will be tomorrow!) I'd have been up the skate park with the plastic sledge and the kids!

Just found out there was a meeting with the council this morning regarding the development of Peghill. I thought it had been shelved but apparently not. We need to get on top of any other meetings so we can have an input. I found out from one of the local yoofs.

Just found out there was a meeting with the council this morning regarding the development of Peghill. I thought it had been shelved but apparently not. We need to get on top of any other meetings so we can have an input.

Simple; 10 mins with you or Andy and you'll have them back on a deck and logging in!!!!!!!!!

A few weeks ago the main council man, Mark Williams, told me in person that there was going to be a meeting soon and that he would let me know ... evidently he didn't ... I found him to be a bit negative to be honest about most things to do with the skate park: he was pretty insistent that the red and white paint from a couple of months back were identical (and expensive) despite the facts in front of his eyes of the white paint being awlful ... litter bins HAVE to be a priority for next summer ... but they get vandalised and do you know how much they cost ... it was like talking to Eyeore!

Sure, I'm vexed!