Andrews of Arcadia
ladies and gentlemen the hunting horn has been sounded on the heath and the mist has cleared onto another season of coarse fishing. to celebrate this glorious occasion i have a small number of john richardson ‘specials’ – floats to the uninitiated – remaining and for sale on the stall as well as the usual [...]
Bossa-Filmes
Jeff Realise you’ll probably be off fishing, but thought you might like to share this. It’s a new blog dedicated to old brazilian music videos, and there’s some great stuff on there already. Bosse Filmes Best wishes Kevin Pearce
Buster Crabbe’s Baitdropper
DP It was too much, the wait for the beginning of the season, the false alarms, the rumours, the pictures of fat birds from France and the people who went over the top too early only to be shot in the back of the head by the baliff or sent to Porton Down to be [...]
Gone Fishing
Wishing you all a glorious 16th. Back soon……
on my behalf, your brothers in the resistance wish you all a memorable june 16th. tight lips dp
Just Two More Days Now…
Lundy Island
Ended up last week on Lundy. 12 miles out into the Bristol Channel, nearer to north Devon than my native South Wales coast, Lundy is a 3 and a half mile long granite lump and was always somewhere that my Dad went on booze cruises back in the day with my Uncle Dennis and assorted [...]
Dart
by David Wheatley and originally published in The Guardian on Saturday July 13, 2002. Like Langston Hughes, Alice Oswald has known rivers. After three years recording conversations with people who live and work on the Dart in Devon, she has produced a remarkable homage to it and them, called simply Dart. The poems of Oswald’s [...]
From Cabaret Voltaire to Curlews
13 June 2008 // Miscellany //Music
New Order’s Bernard Sumner once explained the inspiration behind his songs: “It’s all about birds isn’t it?” He wasn’t talking about the song thrush or semipalmated sandpiper. It’s difficult to imagine the inspirational but hugely lazy Manc picking up some binoculars and trekking through the woods. But some pop songs really do deal with the [...]
Caught by the River