River Kennet,The Old Mill, Aldermaston. Sunday, January 6th
10 January 2008 // Caught By... //On Water
8am tackle up Dave unhooking a “jack”pike caught on a Roach deadbait from the weirpool Photos by Andrew
The Original Anglo Saxon Chronicle
dp the apothecary’s bottles have been drained and i even thought of raiding the bramble covered house where you and bob discovered that cache of pills back in the eighties. the lingering bream cough was banished with the final spoonful of syrup that was a day in front of a linewinder fire spent reading ‘one [...]
Soul & Inspiration – Brian Case
Brian Case – a jazzer and no fan of rock’n’roll – has been, and done, a lot of things in his life, but I doubt you recognize the name. He’s been a writer for NME and every other ‘head’ mag worth its salt, he’s been a critically-acclaimed author (his 1968 novel The Users – a [...]
Favourite books 2007.
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Christmas Piking
7 January 2008 // Caught By...
Morning Jeff, Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year. Had a very relaxing one and even managed three quick ‘guerilla’ spinning sessions on the River Till, 5 minutes walk from my folks house up in Lincolnshire. These days it’s probably more of a drain than a river having been straightened, tamed, imprisoned within [...]
Blood on the Matchmaker’s Apron
ja i trust the clank is now the distant thud of an empty bottle in the recycling bin, that your apothecary has other brows to wipe, that the bream-cough has been weighed on the reaper’s own avons and returned undersized to frank barlow’s locker upstream of us, and that your convalescence involves a healthy dose [...]
Favourite books 2007.
Irvine Welsh meets H.E.Bates uptown – by the Wimpy
dp just when my copy turned up in the post. thanks for the dedication – will read it in a sitting this weekend. just recovering from the flu – knocked me sideways for almost 3 weeks my latest letter from arcadia was no more than a note in an empty benelyn bottle cast into the [...]
Caught By The Reaper – Bobby Byrd
4 January 2008 // Music //Remembrance
Wasn’t gonna run anymore of these but I came across this rememberance of Bobby Byrd today and I didn’t even know that he had passed away. It’s a heartfelt and knowledgeable tribute by a guy called Red Kelly. It’s taken from his blog, “the B side”. It’s a great site, dedicated to the flip sides [...]
No Country For Old Men.
4 January 2008 // Books //Film/TV
So the first must see movie of the year arrives early enough to coincide with everybody’s New Year’s resolutions, when everyone is still trying to keep things tidy before the wheels inevitably fall off the wagon. It also arrives in time to make us realise just how barren the last couple of years have been [...]
