22 October 2008 // Caught By...
Letters From Arcadia
DP The big moon came up here, too. It rose from behind the Betjeman church tower and lastly over the Heath, a real Bram Stoker pudding, the owl screeching at noon and the church bells ringing as if by themselves. The leaves in the trees catching fire everywhere and the banks of No 2 Pond [...]
Celebrate the Apple
from Common Ground Apple Day, 21 October, was launched in 1990 by Common Ground. [Unlike birthdays the first event is counted hence this is the 18th anniversary]. The aspiration was to create a calendar custom. We have a way to go yet, but some already think the event is traditional. We should like the day [...]
Farewell Still Waters (part 2)
21 October 2008 // Caught By...
and then it was off to another favourite estate lake for one last try for a carp. This trip saw seven of us on the bank, including a rare appearance by CBTR co-founder Andrew Walsh, who although suffering from a crappy cold still managed to remember to bring rods and not golf clubs. We were [...]
Levi Stubbs, R.I.P.
20 October 2008 // Remembrance
My newspaper just told me that Levi Subbs was caught by the reaper last Friday. That’s sad. I’ll get us an obit done, but for now, play this loud, listen to his voice and feel the holy shiver; 3-01-reach-out-ill-be-there
Greetings From Brooklyn
Hey, Unseasonably hot in NYC today so jumped the N train on a whim to Coney Island and spent lunchtime with the old boys on the pier. I asked one what he was hoping to catch, His reply? “Maybe a goddammed rat!” Best Neil
Farewell Still Waters (part one)
19 October 2008 // Caught By...
Jakub & I bade farewell to the great estate lake of Osterley Park a few weeks ago. The day was pure Indian Summer, the conditions quite promising. We talked of either a late season Tench, or dare we say it, one of the elusive Carp. We ended up with neither and by late afternoon we [...]
Cake by the River
16 October 2008 // Food and Drink
Dorset Apple Cake October 21st is ‘Apple Day’, which since 1990 has celebrated the great British apple. Events are held all over the country to recognise its’ diversity and significance to our culture and kitchens. There are endless varieties, including Golden Ball, Buttery D’Or, Desse de Buff, Neild’s Drooper and the wonderfully named Devonshire cider [...]
Hair of the Dog: John Galligan’s Angling Detective Novels
by Dexter Petley John Galligan writes fishing detective novels as only Americans can. Angling crimes with angling solutions, Galligan’s prose is kick-arse, pure craft, real hand-built perfection. Every line is a risky cast, flow as clear as a chalk-stream, vocabulary hard as boron. Galligan’s detective is of the reluctant kind. Shit happens when you’re fishing, he knows that, [...]
Caught By The Reaper – Alton Ellis
15 October 2008 // Music //Remembrance
September 1, 1938 – October 10, 2008 Ashley Beedle pays tribute to one of the great voices of Rock Steady A couple of years ago my dad gave me his collection of reggae 45’s after years of me badgering him that as I was the d.j. of the family they would be better served. A [...]
