Cider With Mutants
ja your dawn dispatch took me jolting over the ruts down memory bus-lane, the summer dawns in a london park. there is no city scum more stiller or the need of a fish more depressingly urgent in the world than in a london park at 6.30am as the sun comes up to sour the stomach. [...]
Sawdust Specimen Hunters
dp finally made it down to bushy park yesterday, to the leg of mutton. left home at half five and was on the water by half six. an august mist coming off the bracken and the water like a stew. carp all over the place. the sun hot even at seven. i fished chick pea [...]
So, They Can Be Caught…
Jakub cracked it. 9 1/2lb. What a fish . Doubtless, never before caught. Been pretty hard over there thus far this season. I’ve had five visits and it’s just Bream. Bloody big uns though. Smallest in at just under seven. More anglers on there this season. The word is out but can see the frustration [...]
Penelope Pitstop
ja commiserations that blighty has its foot in its mouth again and your chub get the knock-on. all the more reason to go bushy tailed down to the heron pond where it’s all mouth in margins when it rains, bob reckons. and i should’ve guessed dcarl-forbes wanted those copper fittings for his tench rod and [...]
Roger Deakin
In praise of… Roger Deakin Leader Monday August 6, 2007 The Guardian A cool, damp British summer, of grey skies, floods and high humidity, has been kind to gardens and wild plants, if not to farmers or householders in the north and west of England. Hedges and trees have sprouted in profusion, a sight that [...]
Cake, Death and A Requiem For One Of The Greats
6 August 2007 // Music //Remembrance
Lee Hazlewood, an Obituary and Record Guide Taken from New York Night Train Yesterday we lost one of post-war America’s coolest, most prolific, and secretly important pop artists/composers/producers. While Lee Hazlewood will perhaps always be best remembered for his work with Nancy Sinatra, writing and producing “These Boots Were Made For Walking” as well as [...]
