…a state of mind.
So, we’ve made the point that it’s about being “Caught By The River”. It’s a state of mind. A very personal moment… Take a look at the post below this. It sums it up. When I first listened to “Miss America”, everything stopped. It was just released and it happened to a few of us, [...]
Mary Margaret O’Hara’s “Miss America”
“Every time I told a friend I’d called it Miss America, they laughed”, said Mary Margaret O’Hara in another lifetime, in another place, to another me. She’d made this album, in Toronto and Wales. It was 1988. She spent about four years working it out (when she wasn‘t painting); about two weeks recording it. It [...]
The Summer is Over (Clocks Go Back Tonight)…..
Louise Wolfson, antique clock restorer There’s happiness in clocks. It’s to do with restoration, repainting, keeping an old thing alive. I didn’t take a course. I learned on the job about the types of movement in clocks, the cogs, and how to diagnose a clock, how to listen to a tick. You can tell various [...]
A Pool, a Pike and then a Pint
John Richardson
Mayday Poster from Common Ground
May Day – May Day. Our new landscape-format poster shows a glimpse of the rich range of local distinctiveness we stand to lose if we do not answer this call for help. Blandness and uniformity in town and country are the indicators of a deeper malaise as nature and culture struggle under habitat loss and [...]
Maggots as Fishing Baits part three
24 October 2007 // Caught By...
Hey Jeff, Here it is. The machine is located behind the Shell station in Brandesburton in the badlands of East Yorkshire. This was taken 2002 and as far as I know it’s still there. It’s where the local heads stock up before heading to the nearby Hornsea Mere for mega bags of roach and bream. [...]
Fishing In The Company Of Epiphany Proudfoot
dp the road to wales is a cosmic highway, littered with giant pumpkins and louis cyphre filling stations. my soundtrack for the way home was ‘angel-heart’ with the immortal line, “so you know johnny favourite after all?”, “yes, he was my father”. but before that was the morning after where i felt like harry angel [...]
The Nearest Faraway Place.
I’ve just finished reading a book. ‘The Wild Places” by Robert Macfarlane. I really enjoyed it. I found it comforting. It’s basically the journal of a guy, 30, English, who sets about looking for (and sleeping in) “wild places” in the UK. Woodlands, mountains, coastlines. It’s reflective and brilliantly written and his quest is inspirational. [...]
Greetings From Argentina
23 October 2007 // Caught By...
I took it in this amazing tackle shop in Villa Gessell in Argentina. I couldn’t speak a word of Spainish and the guy there spoke no English but through the international language of fishing I managed to buy three Paternoster Rigs, some Aberdeen No 6 hooks and a bunch of fresh bait. Neil
Waterlog magazine
20 October 2007 // Books //Caught By...
Waterlog – a quick history Despite popular myth, Waterlog has been around in many guises since the splendid (and highly collectable) first issue, published on January 8th, 1855 (as Waterlogge). This makes it without doubt the longest running angling magazine of all time. Founded by a pair of itinerant drifters and shad anglers (only one [...]
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