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Leverets, Slurry and Puffing Like a Loon.

Right, back to the office. Grass has grown, the fringe is a little long and then a tree fell down in high wind at the weekend. Well half a tree actually, a significant chunk of an ageing horse...

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Buscopan, IDS and a Dearth of Water

Oof, Apologies all but I have been laid crook with a severe bout of IDSReading the T&C's it seems Buscopan is ineffective when treatment is sought for Irritating Dickhead Syndrome. Last week IDS...

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A Sedge on The Loo and Further Dunderheads & Weasels

Hello, me again. It's September and fishing is picking up. It improves most summers once August has passed. August is an increasingly unproductive month when it comes to flicking a fly at fish and is...

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Dodgy Modelling and Cooking the Books

Apologies for recent tardiness regarding posts. Been a bit busy. Exchanging lengthy emails with people various on the state of play apropos aquifers in the Dever Valley.Some people have been very...

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Hedges, Home Brew and a Letter

Ave all,Yay!, it’s been raining,Lots.Which is bad news for some quarters of these Isles, who currently entertain eels and other aquatic fauna behind the sofa. But for this drought stricken corner of...

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The Wirral, Lidl and Old Stew

Ho!I’ll just break off there to congratulate The One Show on the BBC. One evening last week they tackled the subject of low groundwater levels, low levels of chalk streams and the reluctance of the...

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Trapezoids, Owls and a Tumultuous Tenure

Tadah! and here we are moving towards “Full Fall” Morning's at Seven; The Hillside's dew-pearled; The snail was on the wing and the lark on the thorn or rather the other way round - etc. etc. And...

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Brief Encounter, Tim Horton and The Fall

Howdy Pardners,Apologies but it was half term last week and with a nod to living for pleasure alone, we’ve been away again. This time on entering the changing room on 52 Festive Rd we were transported...

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87.4% Fall and An Abstemious Fug of Dissapointment

Kersplosh, and here we are back in the river. Yes there is undoubtedly a lot more river than there was ten weeks ago, but this is how a winter should be. Aquifers are not replenished, a magic wand has...

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Eels

I was asked by a local historical society to stand up in a hall and speak of my experience of setting for eels on chalk streams. I've done a few talks about working on the river and there is talk of a...

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A Wheelabrator? It Stinks.

Back again, This time with a headful of sawdust following intense engagements with wood via the medium of chainsaw. We had a complicated do with a brace of ash trees on the island on the pond that had...

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Food Production, Bob Willis and Reggie the Lion

Alright?A common greeting in the flat hills of my homeland where I attended school and almost grew up.We visited recently to touch base with parents. It’s a journey that thirty years ago, once took...

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Kenneth Williams, Board Butter and Cheese........Pardon!

Pardon. A word that has been worn out in this house since we returned from Toronto. Turns out my ear drum went pop during the flight.I then picked up an ear infection with an ear eczema chaser. Judith...

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Friends, Romans, Countrymen

Lend me your ears. The left one if possibleand I promise to give it back when my own left ear is back in mid season form and brim full of vim, vigour and not snot. Half blind without my glasses, half...

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Talksport 2 and a Series of Beeps and Whistles

Happy New Year Everybody bring on 2020.Unto this earth a spring is Bourne.Hosah! Spring Bottom has a spring in it for the first time in six years. And this is where the water leaves the fabled field...

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Kersplosh, Pike and the Sun King

Kersplosh!A welcome sound at this time of the year and my haven’t we had a lovely lot of rain.We’ve a river high on vodka redbull at the moment - bursting with energy and unhappy with the confines of...

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Trumpets for Ears and an Oil Burning Pig

Happy New Year everyone, Have we done that one?Perhaps with the end of the month imminent how about The Last Post, Beating Retreat or Watch Setting by way of an opener.Moving on from the nonsense of...

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Storm Kia-ora, Tree Fail and Avenue 5

Well what a windy weekend that was. Nothing to do with the high pulse count that we currently maintain in order to keep our bowels spick and span, but a storm with a name that I have seen spelt at...

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A Beached Digger, Floods and Lanes

Okay, okay, we could do with a break from this rain. Storm Dennis dumped several inches of the stuff on us last weekend and later in the week the river rose several inches, a lag in time typical of...

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Free Brie, Flybe and a Threeway Light Affair

Still here, I've an expensive ear trumpet to pay for and the car didn't fare too well in the MOT so been busy bunging stuff on ebay. With a two week period of isolation on the cards for most of the...

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