Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration. Izaak Walton If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped Izaak…
Continue reading →The 29th of May, the Feast of the Ascension in the Anglican calendaris the fortieth day after EasterAnd around the end of this month occurs a most important day in the Angling calendar; the trout’s annual Feaster At this time,…
Continue reading →It was almost exactly thirty-five years ago, on a Thursday early in June, that the events I am going to relate occurred. Yesterday, I found an old photograph of one of my sons and myself. It brought to my mind…
Continue reading →I am a musician, and more than in most professions, it is essential that musicians have a hobby. Fishing is mine. My ‘chosen’ profession was thrust on me really, rather than chosen, as I wasn’t much good at anything else….
Continue reading →In this enforced lockdown my thoughts have been recently turning to events, some happier than others, that have shaped my life. Events and people have come to mind and then wandered off, but two strands around which the rest have…
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