4) The surf-related fury that comes with it getting far too dark far too early in winter

5) Having to explain to your friends that you genuinely can’t afford to go for a pint because you’ve spent all your money on new wetsuit/board/fin

6) Getting from your front door to the shower without turning your entire flat into a sand bath

10) When it’s forecast to be a perfect four-foot offshore day and you get to the beach to find it’s like this….

11) Or this….

12) Waking up for a dawnie and realising you are out of wax…. and the shop doesn’t open until 9am

13) Your GoPro footage never looking as gnarly/long as you hoped it would be

14) When you think you’re going to be the first one in the water…. and you find 17 other people are already there

15) When the car park nearest the beach is full and you have to park at the top of a f*cking steep hill…

19) Having to explain to people what part of swimming in the cold North Atlantic in the rain you actually enjoy

20) When you lend your mate your board and it comes back looking like this…

21) Walking to work on a perfectly sunny, wind-free morning knowing it’s just not going to happen

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