Hmmm, it doesn’t want to work 
Damn Daleks 
Dalek Vision
Dr. - Cybernetic Sci fi references aside it was an enjoyable earthly weekend at Moss Jam and capped off with the completely unexpected pleasure of seeing Adrian skate at the Jam and at Coburg as well as your damaged self - your wheelers are pure 78 style.
Your running narrative jabbering commentry on naked madmen walking through parks at midday on Sundays (a surrealist moment), skating in general, coffee etc was entertaining at every moment. Even my knee is in better humour today after the humiliating experience of rolling myself up the transitions on the picnic table.
In order to give my rehabilitation some purpose I remain excited by the idea of a bank session at Greenwich BR with OS Richie and other interested Sydney siders. I will attempt to practice up all my bank slide variations and work my knee responsibly into submission to attempt to reaccomplish youthful rubberman contortions.
Sean - perhaps you can download the latest version of Quicktime (which is MAC media player software) or even update your windows media player with a download and it might go. Do you have Broadband? It takes a little while maybe 10 seconds before if fires up. There is a nice bit where the coping keeps on showing you its boss.
Markham , yes I do have broadband. I have been able to watch what Carey has downloaded on putfile, is that different 
It is a highlight in my skating life to have skated with the legendary Adrian Jones aka Errol 8) and to have seen the man himself skate is another bonus 8)
And to have Doc stoopid along for the ride made it even more memorable. His prompting to push harder and commit to that grind nearly got me there 
Your words will not be forgotten in my quest for the coping, Doc 
I cannot remember Carey’s video exactly but i suspect it was in a windows media player format which is PC based.
The video is in Quicktime which really is a MAC piece of software. I sometimes have trouble with windows media player videos and simply can’t play them. Often machines will play videos in either format but where you can run into problems is when you have an older piece of software on your PC which does not have the ability to play a later version of a Quicktime video. That may be the problem Sean. I’ll see if my PC will play it if I transfer it over and get back to you.
Otherwise you can call in before a skate and watch it on my machine sometime. I’ll try and make some version you can watch but I’m not super smart on this stuff - just bluff my way through trying this and that - I do understand its sentimental value to you though. No worries - leave it to me.
Michael and Sean, you are both perfect gentleman and I am humbled by your kind words. I look forward with keen anticipation both to the Franga Banga and our planned old skool renaissance at the boatramp with OS Richie, Errol, and any other mummified 70s madmen we can dig up from the lime beneath the paving stones of Greenwich…
Aside from that, I still intend to conquer and destroy the Markhamoids once and for all using avant garde deconstructive technologies …
Have just checked out Greenwich Boatramp guys. Same as it was when I last saw it a few years back. Looks great from a distance. Up close its all roughish worn cement, exposed bluestone in many places, with the rusted remnants of the old train track anti-skate device down the middle. Unfortunately the rumours of being resurfaced are untrue. But if you’ve got some big soft wheels, some good gloves for slides, I reckon it’s still skate-able for the keen.
My daughter Imogen who was with me was fascinated that we actually skated the place with it’s inherent risk of losing boards in the harbour - & by the water marks on the cement today there had just been an unusually high tide. I was pointing out the wharf across the harbour at Balmain where the 'Pup Burghers/Balmain Boys came from and Imogen commented… “This is a beautiful place to skate dad” and on a sunny day like it is here today, on the edge of the harbour, backed by a cliff, with a view up to the bridge and the CBD, it is such a true statement. Like a secret tourist spot requiring local knowledge.
I reckon Convic or someone ought to do deal with Greenwich/Willoughby Council and the Greenwich Yacht Club. It just needs the track remnants eliminated once and for all to stop concrete cancer, and a quick resurface job to be perfect - could add some low fence/grate-like device at the bottom to stop runaway boards - and a picnic table or 6 up the top - and there you have it ! cheap and easy - Australia’s 1st ‘heritage’ skatepark.
ARCHITECTS INSTRUCTION #1
(This is a first and final notice)
Boat Ramp Defects Repair.
Patch major holes with
CLASS A Non Shrink Structural Grout.
Available in small easy to carry bags.
Mix with water.
Sets fast and hard.
(tools required - mixing buckets, fresh water (non salt) and trowels.
Repair holes - adjourn for coffee and fine cakes.
Return and skate.
Take one sledge hammer and steel files.
Knock out remnants of railroad track anti skate device and file down any remaining flesh stripping steel splinters.
Take the rest of surface as it comes.
Invite certain Old School Richie and certain David Hill with designated rocker devices and other specialised equipment for heritage session.
Instruction No. 1 noted.
Re. "Take one sledge hammer and steel files. Knock out remnants of railroad track anti skate device and file down any remaining flesh stripping steel splinters. "
To clarify, I would speculate this step has already been done a few years back by god knows who? By remnants, I’m talking about a strip of rusted steel cemented into a groove, with most of it now either flush with the surface or a little below. Could probably get away with just filling the entire groove with the grout. There are no other ‘major holes’ to speak of, just the aforementioned rough surface, which we can definetly “take …as it comes”, so we should perhaps be able to fit in an extra session of cakes & coffee.
Better still, probably for various territorial & tresspassingly political reasons, as 15 - 17 year olds we never really took it upon ourselves to explore the amenities offered by the actual yacht club in which the boatramp is located. Can you imagine a harbourside yacht club, on (point nose to sky), Sydney’s North Shore, without a bar, espresso, food of some description ?
Errol you charming man, Why pamper the boatramp’s complexities when coffee and cake beckons fullstop! Make mine toasted English muffins and Earl Grey tea.
XXXX
Good sir alien robot thingy, as Manchester is to London, should your DOCTOOOOR friend head North of Sydney he will find himself in pleasant surrounds and be well cared for.
A quiver of guitars is at arm’s length from the espresso machine should his inner minstrel emerge. (And of course we can offer safe passage to San Remo too if we have the urge to set sail.)
barbary, timeless backside wheelers and cakes pursue the doctor in all his many guises
Morissey, you initially seem to introduce an urbane, sophisticated, winsome, and delifghtfully jaded note to our sometimes crude and naive conversation here at Charlie. Adrian Jones, King of the Bowl, should endeavour to recall, however, that you have long ago announced your intention to kill his partner! Who knows what other monsters might be spawning within Mr Morissey even as I write … giant, murderously effete Andy Pandy dolls perhaps …
Just because I broke into the palace with a rusty spanner doesn’t mean I’m responsible for the Queen being dead!
Or, is the King of the bowl’s partner a DJ? Noone in their right mind would hang the DJ; especially the partner of one so esteemed.
Oh, William ,William it was really nothing.
Morrissey, we have confirmed that you are getting more and more morose, having moved to the US in order to embrace your irrelevancy.
We have been monitoring your San Remo bowl and have noted that its transitions are perfect like a fine Wedgewood China teacup. It also will be assimilated. Tomorrow, however, we shall absorb the square uniqueness of Kariong …
Barbarism also is irrelevant. Borfism is futile. Borgism is everywhere.