on thursday night, Windscene - the kiteboarding retailer (amongst other things) on Barry's pt Rd Takapuna had its interior completely destroyed by fire.

at this stage the cause is unknown.

as an interesting coincidence, gavin broadbent's brother steve is the owner of the building and has been windscene's landlord for a few years. gavin also works in the building next door, although we all know that is stretching the truth.

also, it is exactly 777 days since christchurch boardbuilder and retailer Underground Kiteboards / Groundswell suffered a similar fate and exactly 14 days since guy fawkes.

if you spell the windscene manager's name in reverse you get E K U L which is a hebrew word that adds up to the divine number 7.

luke, adrian, gavin and steve are all male, have vowels amongst the letters of their names and share many common interests including alcoholism, speed and motorsport.

that's all i'm saying.

yes it was also the 17th of the 11th month so if u subtract the 10 units from the 11 to aline the suprem trinity of 3, u get another 7 and that complets the series, its just not natural.

Bring back the wind! The lack of is causing deranged rantings ... pleeeaaase, save us all, just one windy day! Surely that's not too much to ask?

Whens the fire sale??

hey scei where do you kite? I've been out every day. It's been pretty light by November standards but still easily enough to kite in. You aren't stuck up in the windless northshore are ya??? Manukau heads has been on every day... as allways. As for windscene it's an absolute tragedy and here's hoping that like underground, windscene can rise from the ashes bigger and better than ever before.

More of a Westy, me! It's a bit of a hike no matter where I go, tend more towards Muriwai or Orewa though. Where's Manukau? Ah ha haa