You Really Should Get Out More
The reviews of this book and accompanying articles have caught my attention this week. I hadn’t come across the fella before. Looking forward to reading it. Still got several hundred pages of Jon Savage’s “Teenage” to go first though. That’s one serious book. Really interesting stuff. It appears Robert MacFarlane was very close to the [...]
When To Catch Them
ja dick walker’s two bites a day sounds optimistic this week: red moons and north east winds, right raspers making the fleece feel cheap. fingers too numb to turn the pages of dave steuart’s classic to see if there’s a “when” chapter still left to write. sawdust & halibut pellets, sounds like the lucky dip [...]
How To Catch Them
dp well done on your rotten bait bushwhacker what a lump. you must have written the lost chapter in dave steuart’s 1954 – ‘carp – how to catch them’, – ‘carp how to catch them after three seasons of rain’. that’s what i call stalking, sometimes i feel as though it might take me three [...]
Catching The Eight 30
ja wouldnt mind a soaking to fish a river like the kennet, though here the huisne could do with a roving by the likes of you and that perfection. you might get to take the same picture again, plenty of undiscovered chub under the parsnips. i’d coached mike walker in the art of pursuading you [...]
Wind In The Willows
dp parsnips on the bird table – dig for victory. every car boot here is like a harvest festival. deformed roots and cans of baked beans left by the altar. a feast in a time of famine. lost time, lost fish, the theme of the season so far. having bumped that common at bushy i [...]
Napoleon’s Eyewash
ja the last week has disappeared like an old master under new daubs, a clean sweep like your long shingle beaches. in other words, lost time, lost photos, lost fish. from your ballad of the back-roads i can’t believe our bumpers didn’t cross. except for the mackeral, we were in the same kind of land-warp. [...]
Nelson’s Blood
dp poacher’s pond looks a goer, well worth getting on a lysander but don’t wait for me, get in the reeds and get the eels in. i could be over in the autumn but the big push might be in the spring. must be a few wildies laid up in the silt, too. perfect for [...]
Max Roach, January 10th 1924 – August 16th 2007
18 August 2007 // Music //Remembrance
The Mighty are falling, and you gotta pay your respects, even if we are reading more like Caught By The Reaper of late. No words, just music. This is the one I’ll be playing today…. Down in Cornwall at the moment. Got two days on old china clay pits tomorrow and Monday. Old boy swears [...]
Tony Wilson, Factory, Manchester
12 August 2007 // Music //Remembrance
very sad news this. I was told of Tony’s passing on Friday night and he’s hardly left my thoughts since. It wasn’t a surprise, he had been ill for sometime and I was told recently that he was coming to the end. Still shocked me mind. I knew Tony and I liked him very much. [...]
Record Of The Week (Edgar Jones)
I never listened to Edgar Jones Jones’s first solo album when it came out. I read all the reviews, I saw it on lots of the end of the year charts, people i love and trust kept raving about it. It was even nominated for the Mercury, wan’t it? Still, i didn’t give it a [...]
Caught by the River