#Chris Peskett

[insidecroydon]

Community campaigning raises £12,000 to green Portland Road

In our bankrupt borough, money doesn’t grow on trees… but it can certainly help buy some, as a community initiative by residents in Woodside has amply demonstrated, culminating with a celebratory planting day this month Dig that: a contractor places a Portland Road maple in its new home “What are you doing to my tree?” Chris Peskett shouted down the street. It was March last year, and volunteers…

[lgrima]

What a fantastic team on this Gran Canaria departure on my last day of shift. Top Turn Lead Chris and graced with two Captains in the flight deck: Debi Peskett and Steve Drury. Out of office hours now as I'm on leave! 🔺 🔺 🔺 @flynorwegian #LGW #GatwickAirport #Gatwick #RampLife #AirportLife #AVGeek #Aviation #AviationDaily #InstaPlane #InstaAviation #MegaPlane #MegaShot #PlanePics #Airside #TeamGatwick #HumansOfGatwick #SouthTerminal #NorwegianAir #FlyNorwegian #REDNOSE #RedNoseIGA #NorwegianLG #iPhoneX #Boeing #Boeing737 #B737 #Boeing737Lover https://ift.tt/2vjTAWm

[dohertyphoto]

This awesome couple got married at the lovely Warwick House earlier this year. Shona and John’s wedding is now on my blog. Cracking wedding. . . . Wedding suppliers on the day included: Dress - @beldabridal Suits - Peter Posh Suit Hire Cake - Diveneys Delights Music - @nerostringquartet String Quartet Magician - Chris Peskett Caricature - @cartoonrichcaricatures Photos - @dohertyphoto Venue @warwick_house (at Warwick House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5bMpC8AsNj/?igshid=1ppw5m5xawvto

[dwardjspring]

R.A.D magazine and the connection to UK snowboard magazines. 1993.

Reply on http://wearelookingsideways.com Facebook page post to Tim Leighton-Boyce podcast episode

Eddie Spearing: This was an interesting episode Matthew. As a skater too from that 80's / 90's time frame, RAD was a corner stone of what was going on in Britain intermingled with the other mags, Skateboard! being one of them. It was interesting to hear Tims take on his position and influence on UK skateboarding back then, almost as if he 'fell' into it because he could provide authentic images to the mag publishers at a time when they were hard to find. So it was a natural for him. Right place, right time. Whats interesting too was Tim always worked for the publishers, to a budget (and he got stung a few too many times it seems when they went bust) and it was when he decided to make the jump and BE the publisher that his, myself and Stig's life touched, although we've never met. Here's a little history of that moment, because maybe you didn't know, but Stig & I ran/edited/did the advertising for RAD for about a year in 1993/4 when the then publisher of RAD sold the title to Mark Kasprowsich, owner of ArcWind and publisher of the largest UK windsurfing title. Kasprowsich was looking to expand his publishing business. That was the point Tim mentions, when he attempted to barter for the cost of the title and the publisher (H&L, if my memory is correct) just went and sold it right out from under him to Kasprowsich. The story goes, from what I heard, Tim and Kasprowsich did meet up but got on like Jesus meeting HellBoy and the meeting was over in 20minutes leaving Kasprowsich with THE skateboard magazine of the era, with no team to produce it !!! Disaster! Of course, Stig and I were now into the third season of publishing Snowboard UK magazine. It was still difficult to make ends meet, we both still had to hold down 'proper jobs'. So when out of the blue Mark Kasprowsich calls us with an offer to edit and run RAD, the skate bible of bibles, based in a plush converted barn in Oxfordshire compared to a cold and damp room in a carpet factory in Kidderminster, AND get paid to do so, well, we were all over it. That phone call might well have happened the same day Tim walked away. Stig and I did have our reservation however about doing the roles before we accepted, we weren't sufficiently in the London skate scene, we were just a little too much on the grey periphery to fully be absorbed by the skate cognoscenti both in the UK and in the USA. Its a tight knit, peer approved community. Were we worthy? So what happened next... We got on with it. Sourcing advertising was difficult, getting imagery was difficult, because it was viewed that Tim had been kicked out of his own mag (apart from the fact he never actually owned it, but it was still 'his'), we were not really accepted as we were just snowboarders, which was piss to hardcore skaters back then. The plan was spend two weeks on RAD then two weeks on SUK, but slowly the print deadlines on RAD slipped and slipped as we could not get enough advertising, until we were trying to produce both mags in the same time frame and we just could not do it. We knew about the boys up in Nottingham, Andrew Horsley and Chris, producing their own mag (damn forgotten the name...SYSTM). They were properly 'in the scene' so we introduced them to Kasprowsich to take over RAD. It seemed to happen so quickly. Then it was us out on our ear, and we became persona non grata in the Oxfordshire barn. But we were allowed to stay there for the remainder of the production season. I will say, thankfully, Andy & Chris did a very much better job than we did at RAD and brought it back to life because they had the 'correct' connections and skater respect we did not have. Understandable. SUK however was beginning to get big, we were getting good ad sales and this did not go unnoticed by ArcWind. So, Kasprowsich being the guy he was, made the most of that opportunity presented before him and started his own snowboard magazine - Snowboard World. Yes, that's where it came from. When we found out we shifted SUK out of there that night and went back to our beloved carpet factory in Kidderminster. Chod Thomas was the Snowboard World editor and Jim Peskett, the ad manager for Windsurf, took on the new role of ad manager for Snowboard World. That mag lasted for 3 or was it 4 issues before everyone, and when I say everyone I mean everyone, realised what a cock the publisher was. Chod and Jim and Andy and Chris left en-mass, like a coup, and created a new publishing company, the titles being Whitelines snowboard magazine and Sidewalk Surfer skate mag. And that moment was the death of RAD. And the rest, as they say, is history.

So, what I'm trying to point out here, is that moment, that singular point in our continuum, where Tim decides not to carry on with RAD, in fact spawned a whole new horizon of action sports titles. Ponder on that one for a while...