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Dear David et al
Apologies for tardiness regarding posts,Up to our eyes in it at the moment with the opening skirmishes of the perennial battle with the forces of crack willow in which I have once again been joined by...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and a Slingsby Flat Pack
Breaking News:Spring broken upstream, trickle of water flowing in ditch next to football pitch.Always a good sign with regard to the precipitation ledger, and during the recent brief cold dry snap the...
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Dear Chris
As promised, by one who never knowingly broke the cub scout law, here is a reply from the company themselves. Three weeks after receiving my letter, which is understandable as it must have been a...
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Apologies, more Internet Updates
Apologies for more internet updates, but it's good to talk and anything that helps highlight the faceless, uncaring bunch who seem to have had their head turned by the glamour of Television land...
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Call me Dick (slaps thigh suggestively)
Well, this is where we are today. Looks like me and the cat are off to London and its teeming thoroughfares formed from gold,and super fast broadband supply.River news and much more besides to follow...
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Midnight Conniptions and Peculiar Barbel in the Guadalquivir
Completely Broadband free this one, cos that's how we roll around here. It's been a busy period in the wood and much timber has been laid waste. I've a dent in my chain bar and a few millimetres left...
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This Just in from Jez
I have received an email from a Jeremy in IslingtonMention was made at the foot of the piece concernimg unauthorised use, copying or disclosure not being permitted,But I stopped reading before that...
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Correspondence from our Man at the Ministry- Mr Emerson
This just in from the man at the ministry,Well that's that then, a busy bunch who currently have their hands full with a match fixing scandal at the heart of Tennis, who don't seem to have grasped the...
View ArticleApologies, Broadband Supply Again - Dear Mr Emerson
Dear Mr Emerson,Thank you for your reply dated 17th February 2016 to my letter concerning the broadband service provided by BT to our particular area, or lack thereof.In your reply you seem to be under...
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Building bridges with Lord Ludgershall and The Duchess of Cambridge
Here follows a photographic record of a bridge being built over the river Dever.It's a new one for me, as I normally undertake such tasks alone in the utmost secrecy as I like to take my time, minimise...
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Moving Bridges with Lord Ludgershall - The Duchess of Cambridge ducked this...
Building bridges last week, moving bridges this week. The old bridge made from a telegraph pole split down the middle with a double thickness deck on top has a few years left in it yet and will serve...
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Matters I should have attended to had I not been distracted by The Duchess of...
Matters I meant to attend to before I was distracted by bridges, Ludgershall and the Duchess of Cambridge, delivered in a punchy series of bullet points as it's all go around here. 1: Feck! Frank's...
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Cup my Corks and Call me Titan
Well here we are and all bridge work is complete.Moving the old bridge from the river to the flight pond went rather well. The brains trust that is Lord Lugg and myself recognised the need to be fairly...
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Flamenco and Old Sausage in Andalucia
Apologies for tardiness regarding posts but Madam and myself are fresh back from a week in the land of the orange.Not the Netherlands, but the fabulous city that is Seville.But first Madrid, a city...
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Sexed Up River Keepers Upbeat for Disney
Good evening everyone and apologies again for tardiness regarding posts,been a bit busy and only now, with a week to go before the start of our trout fishing season, is their time to attend to a few...
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And We're Off!
And we're off, with the first four days of fishing undertaken after a sharp frost each morning and intermittent sleet and hail throughout the day.Despite conditions, a flurry of olives in the early...
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Aliens are sending us Frying Pans and we don't know how to respond
Just back from a few days fishing with Nanook in the North.An unexpected repeat invitation as I am certain I have let myself down both on and off the banks of the River Carron at some point during my...
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Foam Free and Pipsqueaks with Popguns
Mayfly hatches these past few days have been phenomenal. If I'd pootled up the bank in the car I'd have had the windscreen wipers turned up to eleven. It's been a good start to the season, a hundred...
View ArticleNot quite a Damascene moment, but I think I got there in the end
Apologies, fishing free this one, and sans photos, but I need to write this down before I forget a conclusion drawn. I was recently sent a quote that seemed to sum up my current feelings about the...
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