Cabbage Is King
dp since mansfield left highgate has gone downhill to kentish town. the hero of the hour in the village is cabbage a staffordshire terrier whose ears and tail were severed by a teenage gang to make him fit for fighting on the thirteenth floor of some nowhere block. cabbage fought back and is now in [...]
Pleasures Of April
April Bon Iver “For Emma, Forever Ago” (4AD) Paul Kingsnorth “Real England” The Encyclopedia Of Wales Death Cab For Cutie “I Will Possess Your Heart” Ian Vince & Dan Kieran “Three Men In A Float” Flight Of The Conchords album on Sub Pop Portishead “Third” (esp “The Rip” – record of the year or too [...]
The Sea Perch
29 April 2008 // Books //Caught By...
Hi Jeff, At last, a piece from my book for CBTR! Hope you approve (the book – Out of the Blue – should be published early September.) There was a great sound and music piece on Radio 3 last night by Chris Woods. Listening to the river was a 20 minute description of life on [...]
Real England & Three Men In A Float
One week and two very different books about the current state of England. Both books, although tonally poles apart, look out over the nation’s landscape and it’s national character to draw conclusions about the state of the country in 2008. The end result, with both Guardian/Ecologist writer Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Real England’ and ‘Three Men In [...]
Fish Tales
The Perch Chris Yates explores the finer traits of some of Britain’s coarse fish. Radio 4 says, “Writer Tom Fort accompanies Chris to the River Thames and argues that Perch are quintessentially masculine, in spite of what the Victorians wrote”. Listen Here
Caught By The Reaper – Al Wilson
Al Wilson, June 19, 1939 – April 21, 2008 thank you Al, for one of the greatest 45′s of all time; but that’s not the whole story. Kent recently reissued his “Searching For The Dolphins” album. It’s a real class record and has been a secret far too long. Produced by Johhny Rivers arranged by [...]
cuckoo spit & dripping yarns
ja was beginning to despair of a despatch from your sector. lines down, snipers, pickpockets, village hooligans. it must be rough up highgate. thank christmas for the hampstead ponds, their toothless pike and broken perch, ladies of the silt, cutpurse carp who once saw katherine mansfield, and landlocked eels who were there before betjeman. i [...]
Antique Tackle Observer
antique tackle observer
the national vintage tackle fair
ladies and gents thanks very much to you all for the editorial support which you gave to the national vintage fishing tackle fair which took place at the abbey stadium on sunday. the fair was a great success with a strong public turn-out which included 84 year old lloyd brookes who had fished for redditch [...]
vapour trails
dp the nearest blue plaque to here belongs to the memory of john betjeman who lived up the hill in a yellow stuccoed villa. he who saw the screens in hospitals like the kent and sussex in bluebell vistas and heard the bang of the coffin nail in the peal of a church bell. everything [...]
Caught by the River