Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Assessed Expedition Photos

Whilst attempting the writeup for the expedition myself, Alex Clark, Hugh Findley, Tom Angus and Ben Bloodworth undertook many moons ago, I found a couple of photos I don't believe have been posted. Enjoy!:

Competitions are so sick they're disgusting.

Set for life sonnnn!

FarmVille

If, like me, FarmVille has taken over your life through no wish of your own, you'll want more stuff on your farm. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-cheat-coins-and-exp-in-farmville-08-27-09-281140/ is what you need.

Brandon Crane's Nottingham Killing Rampage

Alex Shipman and I went to Nottingham the other day, and met up with Dom, Brandon and Brett (hmm...). Much fun was had, and we had the near-perfect day; getting kicked out only once (and that was after a while), finding all the spots we wanted to, and everyone getting all the tricks they wanted to. Even though Alex rolled his ankle, he said it was the best street skate he'd had, and I agree. His edit below:

More yak Skateboarding >>
http://video.mpora.com/watch/LLNxiyA0S/

America!!!

Just got back from a just-over-2-week trip to America; for the first week and 6 days we were in Orlando, Florida, and the last 3 days we were in NY! I learnt two things in general for America; everything goes by the rule 'Bigger is better', and often the reason for something being the way it is or being where it is was simply "Because they could"! However ridiculous these things sound, it actually made for several amusing incidents and realisations; not least realising that was what was once the world's tallest building (the Empire State Building) was built just because 2 gents felt like being a bit grand! The results were always well worth it, such as the extravagant decoration of the themeparks; no paper-mache rocks here! The rides themselves were excellent and most had some sort of story. The amount of themeparks there were in Orlando was also staggering; including Disney you could easily spend 2 weeks of solid theme parks, or a month if you were doing it like we did (which I would recommend!)

My camera broke before we left on this trip, and so my usual blogging frenzy was hindered somewhat. Actually, I didn't have much luck with cameras on the trip: I didn't have one of my own, I lost mum's memory card to the streets of NY, and I forgot to take it up the Empire State. Whoops on my behalf I suppose!

Anyway, all being well, Facebook will allow my photos to go up, and I'll put together an NY edit. And I'm wise enough not to put a time limit on it, because I know I'll never hit whatever I say, even if it's a month from now!

P.S. And I met Luke and Will at Universal Studios and Cropper in Orlando! The most random thing ever!

New videos!

As Movie Maker broke and wouldn't render stuff, I had to take some clips from the now-never-to-see-the-light-of-day Skeg blog from April. Here they are:

Saturdays, (Outside) The (closed) Park

Start it off with what happened many moons ago as a result of Alex's masterfully coreographed Maggie May lipsync! Go to http://vimeo.com/1956822 and watch it.

An accidental sighting of Ben Grove the moment Shipman appeared was good! The fact he was listening to the same band the guy was singing to was weird as well!

"Random outburst" as Shipman put it, whilst waiting for Ed to tie his shoes!

Ed and his nuggets, he couldn't just leave them now could he?

SPF 50. Ed saved my life! Lukas refused to supply me with any, and his claim that you didn't need it was brutally proved wrong when he burnt so bad he could barely shower!

Lukas showing off his newly scraped hand due to a stone that threw him to the floor at 100MPH despite going at about 1! Anyway, he then discovered it was "just a bit of manky skin he pulled off", which he talked about for the next hour...

Coathanger art. Ed's stoked, as you can see.

Lukas texting Pepsi. He won nothing of course. And Ed did as well. Same goes!

Filming Alex doing a wallie. Which was a lot better than it looks here, it was so clean, far and high!

Lukas dicking my board. And it's still there, possibly permanent?!

Kittens! Dizzee Rascal and Darcy, all up in this joint.

Darcy surveying the area...

...and finding a threat!

And all because Lukas wanted a burger!

Best quiz known to man!

http://apps.facebook.com/whichamazingbada/

Which amazing badass pokémon are you? Oh man, the questions and answers are class:

Question 1
You're walking down the GODDAMN street and someone offers you some GODDAMN Greek Style Natural Yoghurt. What the FUCK do you do?

YOGHURT DOESN'T EXIST IN MY FUCKING ERA.

RUN AROUND FUCKING ATTACKING PEOPLE COZ YOU CAN'T SEE THE FUCKING YOGHURT.

FUCKING KICK THE BASTARD.

FUCKING MOO.

NURSE IT BACK TO FULL FUCKING HEALTH.

FLOAT.

LICK THAT SHIT UP.

FUCKING FEEL DEPRESSED AND SIGH.

FUCKING ELECTRIFY THE FUCK OUT OF IT COZ YOU CAN'T EAT IT.

SPLIT IT INTO NINE EVEN SIZED FUCKING PORTIONS.

HAUNT THE SHIT OUT OF THE YOGHURT.

FUCKING SLASH THE FUCKING YOGHURT.

Question 2
Someone bakes you a GODDAMN LEMON CAKE. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DO?!

FUCKING PUT IT IN THE OVEN.

FUCKING CHARGE AT IT.

FUCKING PLAY SOCCER WITH IT.

WHAT'S A LEMON CAKE?!

CUT IT INTO GODDAMN EQUAL SLICES.

PARALYSE THAT SHIT.

FUCKING BURY THAT SHIT.

I DON'T LIKE LEMON CAKE.

LICK THAT SHIT..

TAKE IT TO THE GODDAMN HOSPITAL FOR THE GODDAMN CHILDREN

FUCKING FLAP AROUND AND SHIT.

FUCKING CAN'T EAT IT COZ I DON'T HAVE A MOUTH.

Question 3
You're walking around in some GODDAMN tall grass and some ASSHOLE tries to throw a FUCKING BALL AT YOU. WHAT THE SHIT DO YOU DO?

DO SOME GODDAMN KNITTING.

FUCKING GLARE AT THAT SHIT.

PLAY SOME GODDAMN SOCCER

FUCKING LICK THE BALL AND IT GETS FUCKING PARALYSED.

FUCKING MOO THE SHIT OUT OF IT.

FUCKING BE A ROCK.

FUCKING FLY AROUND COZ YOU CAN'T SEE IT.

FUCKING NURSE THAT SHIT.

FUCKING BE GREEN.

FUCKING TRY AND CATCH ALL THREE OF ME!

WHAT THE FUCK ARE HUMANS?!

FUCKING PLAY BASEBALL.

Question 4
What is FUCKING FUNNY to you?

THE FUCKING CHILDREN.

Pretending to be a rock and then PUNCHING THE SHIT OUT OF SOMEONE.

AAAAHHHH!!!!

PURPLE.

PEOPLE WITHOUT BIGASS TONGUES.

FUCKING MOUTHS.

KNIVES AND SHIT.

I DON'T FIND SHIT FUNNY. THAT'S FOR FUCKING VULPIX OR SOME SHIT.

FUCKING PUNCHING.

Nothing is funny.

FUCKING TECHNOLOGY.

CHARGING THE SHIT OUT OF SOMEONE.

Question 5
You fail your GODDAMN exams. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DO?!

KICK THAT SHIT.

FUCKING THROW SHIT AROUND AND FUCKING MAKE AN EARTHQUAKE.

FUCKING DIE.

BURN! BURN! BUUUUUURRRRN!

MAKE OUT WITH THE EXAMINERS.

FUCKING CRY.

FUCKING NURSE THE EXAM TO EXCELLENCE.

FOSSILISE THAT SHIT.

DO SOME GODDAMN HYPER BEAMS OUT OF YOUR FOREHEAD.

FUCKING STICK TO A FRIDGE OR SOME SHIT.

SLASH THAT SHIT TO SHREDS.

WHAT?! I DIDN'T TAKE ANY FUCKING EXAMS I CAN'T SEE THE PAPER AND I CAN'T WRITE! JUST LET ME FUCKING FLAP!

Question 6
Where the FUCK do you LIVE?!

A BADASS HOSPITAL

SOME TALL FUCKING GRASS.

SOME GODDAMN FARM

FUCKING EVERYWHERE

A FUCKING KARATE...PLACE

Fucking in the past.

SOME GODDAMN WEEDS

I DON'T FUCKING KNOW!

SOME GODDAMN CLOUD OR SOMETHING.

SOME NASTY ASS MAGNET.

SOME GODDAMN MOUNTAIN THAT HAS A BUNCH OF ROCKS AND SHIT.

A FUCKING VOLCANO

Question 7
Someone asks you to take a GODDAMN picture. WHAT DO YOU DO!?

LICK THE FUCKING CAMERA

DO SOME GODDAMN FLOATING.

FUCKING SLASH THE FUCK OUT OF THE PEEPS BEFORE YOU TAKE THE GODDAMN PICTURE.

CHARGE AT THAT SHIT.

FUCKING NURSE THAT SHIT.

FUCKING BECOME FOSSILISED OR SOME SHIT.

FUCKING TAKE NINE PHOTOS.

AAAH! YOU CAN'T HOLD THE CAMERA COZ YOU'RE BLIND AND HAVE NO HANDS!

FUCKING DROP KICK HIM.

THROW SOME GODDAMN ROCKS.

PUT THAT NASTY ASS CAMERA TO SLEEP.

BE FUCKING SAD NO ONE TAKES PICTURES WITH YOU.

Quiz Finished!

Etnies Recognition Tour through Eddies eyes:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=24015&id=1136382609

Etnies Recognition Tour: The Works, Leeds

Sidewalk edit: http://video.mpora.com/watch/FB664AGw7

Skiing in Italy - Day 6

Paddy gettin' in there!

Angry army man gettin' in there!

Kru. So G it hurts.

Zebrahead/ Headhead

Put the girls ski gear on the PE teacher. With a massive can of beer that despite the normal ones costing 40 cents were actually nice!

Pro

Not so pro

Straight up pro

Bros. Haha, look at Alex being miserable (2nd from left) and me being an opera singer (middle)!

Skiing in Italy - Day 5

Rollin' deep

Yes bowlrider old man!

Getting ready for the slalom, the blue arch in the background was what we pushed through to start the timer.

Waiting...

...and more waiting. Covering Will with snow is fun, falling knee deep in a snowdrift to take the photo and having to jump/ roll to get out is better!

Shipman getting helped out after failing to put his ski on

Pask getting bummed by Will Tse.

I love this photo! Me: "Oh man, that pizza was huge", Lewis: "Want another one?", Me: "What?! You had a large portion of chips before that as well, what the hell?!"

Have it view.

Ice slide. Doing this got me a massive hipper that required bruise cream and tentative sitting down!

Joe doing the ice slide. The one of the left of him was horrible, just like sliding down rock. And at the bottom of a fairly doable one was a pit dug in by ski boots slamming into the ground, and so when you went into that you just crumpled.

Some guy coming out of the slalom in the distance

Edge of the earth.

FUNTIME!!!

Up down up down left push push right push push up down up down up and clear bump, push push up down up and clear massive jump steep right steep left push push relax realise you're going faster than you thought parallel

Sofia advertising safety and Pask thrusting. Yeah...

Will expressing his shock at the fact that we all got within the same second for the slalom!