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Baile Atha Cliath and Further Movements
Well I've been back in the kaftan and Madam has once again been picking the guitar, Chattels of travel that provide succour in transit,and while some at the airport may look askance at our early...
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Twenty Five Years, Possibly with Power to Add
This week saw me successfully complete forty nine years on this earth and the twenty fifth anniversary of my employment in my current position. It's my thirty first year working in the valley, three of...
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Mesomorphs, Kelpies, Nuggles and Prodnose
And there went March.... the browns, the funeral, the pomp, the circumstance, the ides n'all.We are currently stuck on fast forward and the impending trout fishing season on the Dever is hurtling...
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Trains, Exploding Carts and Automobiles
Apologies for the tardiness in chucking up guff, but been away for a while. Italy again, Rome first, and an early morning flight from Terminal Five that we nearly missed due to the numerous overnight...
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New Season!! Just In! Everything On This Rale £5'!
And we're off!Two days into the new fishing season and fish are already falling for a hawthorn in some of the heaviest hatches of the long legged black buzzer that I can remember, reaffirming the...
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Weasels Worms Dimbulbs and their impact on Groundwater Supply
Week one,Done. Hawthorn was early, heavy but brief and as always has served as the flicking of a switch where our brown trout are concerned and many fish now lie up on the fin seeking further surface...
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Further Dimbulbs and Worms, plus many Weasels
Just been watching the weather from the local wing of state TVWhen did " it will be sunny"become "there will be some brightness"?Why not add "with no little contrast" if we are trying to up the word...
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Breakdown, Recovery plus Scouts and Guides
Hello everybody, here goes with another thousand words of guff, But first an appeal. We all see them. Sitting silently with pleading eyes in all weathers at the entrance to shops. Shabbily dressed,...
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A Lake full of Vendace Surrounded by Bleached Peacocks
Apologies for the following photos and accompanying text bearing no relevance to my place of work, but half term has just passed and we've been away again, and I'll just break off there I am aware of...
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Beach Combing with Ming the Merciless
For those that have kindly been in touch,No we haven't been away on holiday this week , although Madam is once again on the annual year 6 school residential trip to the activity centre at Calshot Spit,...
View ArticleHooray! The Media Have Finally Noticed
Here's a link to an excellent piece in today's newspaperhttp://www.independent.co.uk/environment/england-drought-rivers-water-drained-removed-farms-homes-threat-farming-a7805156.htmlFurther guff as we...
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Help! Water Shortage! Send Supplies Now!
To quote the world's worst newspaper,"Phew whot a scorcher!"My clever digital weather station recorded a maximum temperature of 37. 4 Celsius last Wednesday afternoon or 99.32 Fantigrade according to...
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Things I Forgot to Mention Due to Offloading on Over Abstraction
But first a pastoral scene to serve as balm to previous ire on the impact of over abstraction on chalk streams.Hurrah!Since the previous spleen venting on the unsustainable use of groundwater supply it...
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Who's In?
I don't mean to cause alarm, but does this recently received correspondence (see below) mean that air strikes are imminent?Does our Defence Secretary know that Hacker's have already penetrated...
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It's been an emotional time of late
Apologies, but it's been an emotional time of lateThere is much to discuss and normal service will be resumed in the next 48 hours now that this day of days has passedOh yes, fishing's ok, but the...
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A Day of Days
Tadah!Apologies for my absence and tardiness regarding posts, but we've been a bit busybut now we're back, back back, so on with the guff,But first can I scotch rumours that I have relinquished my full...
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Blood Pressure and The Joy of Buffering
After the party is over, Yes the mood's taken a bit of a dip and yes, it is disappointing to find garments and footwear discarded in the bushes after I made it quite clear in my speech that it wasn't...
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Why Wander Odysseus, Why? Doh!
Still here,Just had a few things on that's all, some semblance of normal service has now been restored, although a quick glance at the calendar confirms that there isn't much free time remaining this...
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We Have Nothing to Fear Bar the Sky Falling In On Our Heads
I don't know how it happened but it seems to be September. The month in which fishing for trout usually picks up after the dog days of summer. Dipping into the archives our fishing books demonstrate...
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Cold War, Sweeps and Oz
A few weeks to go and September fishing for brown trout is uncharacteristically tedious. There are plenty of fish about, too many on some bends as a plop of a clunky nymph can send several charging...
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