A Short Telegram
dp at the rising of the bobbin and the going under of the float we shall remember them. in a letter home to his wife, one nottinghamshire soldier fighting in mesopotamia in 1917 wrote, “of all the flea-ridden, snake-ridden, scorpion tormented corners of the world this is it, and i’d swap all of jerusalem land [...]
Laying A Wreath
ja all leaves on deck, the forests are crooked mizzens once more, nightmare cutty sarks, luminous green moss where the first chanterelles are waking:  but today, while you’re flogging old poppycocks in redditch, we remember francois polvent, a young french priest from the village of ors in nord pas de calais, who went fishing [...]
Searching For Peace & Beauty – Where We At?
11 November 2007 // Miscellany
Received some kind and encouraging words from Dexter Petley (see “Letters From Arcadia”) yesterday. Got me thinking about where we are at. A little over six months in and I think we are OK. If you look back to the early posts, as to how and why we started this, you see that we had [...]
While we are on the subject…
with thanks to Kevin Pearce Shivers Inside
The Pale Fountains, caught by the river…
wanted to use these pics to accompany Teds piece, “The Magical World Of…” but only just found them. I guess they are from their first press shoot, from, 1982. They really were a cool band. Early days, musically, it was via Love’s take on Bacharach, a bit of Bossa and lyrics from the lineage of [...]
Sunbury Whiskey Sour
dp whilst you were away with the travelling circus, juggling whisky bottles and walking across the tightrope high above la morinais i was with g concocting a counter plot to november 5th. we met in the priest hole under the stairs at the cheshire cheese, took the stone steps down into the cellar and walked [...]
The Son of Friskney
8 November 2007 // Caught By...
jeff i loved the photo of trent otter. he is the greatest angler of all time and a writer who puts others in the shade. here’s an extract of a piece i wrote about him for midland angler earlier in the year, John William Martin, better known as Trent Otter, was born in 1852 in [...]
Out Of The Cool (Gil Evans)
7 November 2007 // Music //Remembrance
Post war New York City, and the sound hurtling from the cellars of Manhattan’s mid-town jazz clubs is the frantic sound of bebop. In this smacky, predominantly black milieu with its own language and code of conduct, one white guy is attracting attention from those in the know. His name is Gil Evans. Evans was [...]
Caught By The Kennet
Aldermaston, Berks. 6/11/07
Trent Otter
4 November 2007 // Books //Caught By...
J. W. Martin, better known as the ‘Trent Otter’ is one of angling literature’s best-loved all-round anglers. Martin wrote about many of the river fisheries in the Trent area and also the Derbyshire Derwent. Perhaps one of the greatest of all anglers, Martin depicts a gentle way of fishing as he pursues pike, perch, trout, [...]
