Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
Monday 10th September Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire Suggested aural accompaniment, Euros Childs new record, “The Miracle”. “This could be ‘the oldest surviving ceremony in Britain’, according to Charles Kightly… The ceremony takes place… on Wakes Monday, the old village feast day… After a blessing by the vicar in St Nicholas’s Church… The [...]
To Fish The Burns
5 September 2007 // Caught By... //Music //On Water
My grandfather was a good fisherman. A good poacher. I suppose my grandfather taught me. To fish the burns. Brown trout. 10 or 12 inches say, wee things. Golden and brown in colour, red spots. First of all, the burns. They are slippery places. The water is fast moving. You better watch out. You kind [...]
Brooke Bond Beach Heads
ja your seascapes would make even captain cat’s eyes get up and walk. dungeness was a legend of my childhood. there were men down my road who went there sundays, leaving me guessing with my breadflake and hooks to nylon. men of dungeness, powerstations in donkey jackets, long green heave-ho rods and twelve snoods of [...]
Space Shuttle
dp back from dungeness, the lost beach, the largest area of shingle in the world along with cape canaveral, a post apocalyptic edward hopper vision in a corner of kent long forgotten by the mapmaker. the first sight of the power station chills the guts – a ticking time bomb, a concrete tumor lost in [...]
Surf, sand, sky, Leach, Hepworth, Nicholson, Smeaton’s, Sloop and the St Ives Freshwater Angling Society
1 September 2007 // Caught By... //Miscellany
Me and the family just back from Summer holidays in St Ives. We regularly go to Cornwall and I always try and get a few days fishing in. My Brother comes down from Plymouth and we set about finding a good place to go. It isn’t easy. I guess coarse fishing isn’t that popular when [...]
