The pebble man

tim posted this 4th February 2010 5:00pm

There’s no point me telling this story so i’ll leave it to my good friend Paul to tell it how it is.

Hi Tim

Was in the pub watching the inevitable occur at Elland Road last night and found myself sat at the bar next to Dr. Geebers – the pebble man.

I had heard about him a few days before, creating a pebble sculpture on the beach in Criccieth so i guessed that it might be him. I do tend to frequent my local pub for local people….

He is inspiring in that he is homeless with all the issues that seem to go with this. He decided in May last year to walk down the coast from Brighton and make a couple of Pebble sculptures as he went along. He wanted to walk along the coast because he wanted to stop drinking during the day etc.. this shortish walk has now turned into a determination to walk around the coast of Britain. He is now walking around Anglesey and is due to create his next sculpture in Beaumaris early next week.

He is writing a book about his experiences/journey etc and all proceeds of the book will go to the homeless.

He is on facebook here

There is a youtube clip from Amroth

Not really sure about how else to contact him. If you can give him any publicity on the howies by the way blog.

He is living off the generosity of people who meet up with him, usually only when he is making his sculptures. So any publicity that he gets will I am sure help him on his journey.

Hope you are well.

Paul

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  1. Barry Says:
    February 5th, 2010 at 7:51 am

    If somebody tries to kick that sandcastle over they’ll break their toes.

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    February 5th, 2010 at 11:07 am

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  3. mel Says:
    February 5th, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    I’VE SEEN ONE, I was at Newgale cafe just after christmas when we had the snow and there was an ace sculpture of a surfer riding a wave but it looked like someone had kicked the head off, so i crouched down behind it in the northerly wind and put my head in its place and my hubby got a photo, i will try and get hold of it and post it.

    well done to the pebble man.