Shadows & Reflections – Jeff Barrett
31 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
2007: Lots of good fishing. Having more confidence. Not necessarily catching more fish but realising that I do know what I’m doing. Special company & memorable fish; Jan 3rd, the Kennet at Barton Court, Matt’s 2 lb 9oz Perch. Happy New Year; The first visit to a lake in Hampshire, with Justin. Not really knowing [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Music
30 December 2007 // Music //Shadows & Reflections
This wasn’t the plan. It wasn’t even the question. We didn’t really want “lists”, we wanted thoughts, reflections, reminiscences on the special things that have happened this year. They have been brilliant too and I think, they give a real insight into the character of the contributors. I have written something about my Caught By [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Andrew Walsh
29 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
It’s good to take time out and reflect. That’s one of the reasons why I go fishing. 2007 has seen the birth of Caught By The River and that has to be the years highlight. I suggested the idea to Jeff sometime early in 2006 but it was left dormant as we got on with [...]
Roger Deakin on the Radio
The moat at Walnut Tree Farm in Springtime If Roger Deakin was alive today I hope that he would like Caught By The River. I would be trying to contact him, asking if he would write something for us. imagine if he did, wouldn’t that be something. Both of his books, “Waterlog” (1999) and “Wildwood” [...]
Caught By The Reaper – Tony Wilson
28 December 2007 // Music //Remembrance
Tony Wilson, Factory Records, Manchester, February 20, 1950 – August 10, 2007 Tony was a journalist but will be forever remembered for his antics in the music industry, a place where his intelligence, wit and anti establishment attitude were not always tolerated but did actually make a difference. He was also someone that I knew. [...]
Caught By The Reaper – Max Roach
27 December 2007 // Music //Remembrance
Max Roach, January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007 When you think of bebop, your first thought is probably those fast horn lines hurtling past your ears faster than you know how to process them. Listen again though and you’ll hear the other sound, perhaps the more important one – and that’s the speeding hiss [...]
Caught By The Reaper – Bryan Pearce
26 December 2007 // Remembrance
Bryan Pearce, July 21, 1929 – January 11, 2007. Stephen Barrett remembers St Ives artist, Bryan Pearce, who we lost in January ; My first recollection of Bryan Pearce was outside the Sloop Inn in St Ives, about 40 years ago. I was around 21 and had escaped the city to breathe the fresh air [...]
Peace (Cigarette On The Waveney)
24 December 2007 // Books //On Water
….indeed. And if that isn’t possible, try this; half an hour in the company of Roger Deakin as he takes a canoe down the River Waveney; A Cigarette on The Waveney
The Clank of the Apothecary’s Bottle.
dp thank you for your letter of the 12th and for your kind words in your year of shadows and reflections. my reply is long overdue. whilst you were roasting spuds around the ceasefire and nailing barbel by the tail to every door in laure’s village i have been marooned in a shiplake punt in [...]
Shadows & Reflections – Edwyn Collins & Grace Maxwell
23 December 2007 // Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to it’s end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments; Edwyn on Mary Wilson Macintosh; I loved my Granny. Sometimes she was a little monkey. Sometimes she was quiet. Sometimes she sang for me. “The sun shines bright on Charlie Chaplin.” From the First World War. [...]
