Fishing With Jakub
11 February 2008 // Caught By...
It seems the only way I get to see a fish on the bank these days is by going out with Jak. Last week we grabbed a day and headed over to Oxfordshire to fish a big old estate lake. Not at a bite for Steve or myself but Jak took a 9lb Pike on [...]
CAMRA Community Pubs Week
7 February 2008 // Food and Drink
Saturday 16th to Saturday 23rd February 2008 “It’s a frightening reality that at least 56 pubs are closing in Britain each month and early indications of new research being carried out by CAMRA suggest that this figure could actually be significantly higher. Worse still, the majority of these pubs are not high street chain bars [...]
Fish-Fingered
ja thanks for that buchaneering tale, nabbing a duke’s pike under flush winter sky from a punt, clapping butler and cooing maids. there should be tapestries and painted ceilings of stag party pike inside the dutchess’s boudoir. you know the old song of course, “pull out the stopper & lets have a whopper/get me to [...]
The Tao Of Teifi
Water flows. It has to or else it stagnates into a pond. Conversation flows too. It’s a form of liquid, in that it lubricates our mouths and our heads and occasionally our hearts. Due to the maths of time versus weather verses light verses tasks, this journey upriver was not exactly one big chat with [...]
The Last Supper
dp whilst you were gorging on your winter harvest of fat monks me and g were punted up on blenheim for the last supper, the final cast before g tied the blood knot and got married. lost count of the false casts and pulled hooks that had led to this day but there we were [...]
The Horse That Stood And Listened
Just shy of Tregaron, about 63 miles upriver, there’s a field. As fields go, it’s very skinny, more a slither of meadow really. This meadowette flanks the river and floods when the rain factories put a big order in. On dry days, it’s marshalled and mown by a horse, a dappled brown and white creature [...]
THE TOUR DE TEIFI – field notes
Peter Kirby’s journey, taking the path of most resistance, continues; Friday 21-9-07 Wake in London. Make porridge for Bess & Kate. Kiss and scarper. Cycle to Gabriel’s Wharf, Southbank. Fill bike bottle with River Thames water. Train to Camarthen. Ride towards Cardigan up along Afon (river) Duad as test run for tomorrow. Mist turns to [...]
The Path of Most Resistance (continued)..
On September 22nd 2007, one man and his bike took the 75.4m path of most resistance from sea to summit at Teifi Pools, one mile above sea level. What follows, over the next few days, is the high, low and twilight of Peter Kirby’s journey. Ingredients of a river • Tidal river, sand flats, lagoons, [...]
