The 500th Posting on Caught By The River
28 February 2009 // Books //Caught By...
…which happened to coincide with the delivery of a couple of proof copies of our first book, so a doubly proud day in CBTR Towers. The book is due out on June 16th through Cassell Illustrated. It features exclusive writing on the UK’s waterways by the likes of (among many others) Irvine Welsh, Gavin Pretor [...]
…I Live By The River
27 February 2009 // Music //Remembrance
Read about this in today’s Independent – loving the sound of it, think a trip out West might be in order.
Bloke Walks Into A Pub
26 February 2009 // Food and Drink
So there we were, me and Andrew, minding our own business, enjoying the first pint of the day (at The Cow in Westbourne Park, the perfect place to ease yourself gently into tomorrow’s hangover) when a bloke comes up and asks us how the beer is. We’d gone off-piste that morning when we each opted [...]
Letter From Arcadia
DP Thank you kindly for your letter of last week, delivered promptly across the frozen eastern wastes by a Rasputin look-a-like who lives in a silver birch hut on the West Heath and has taken over the running of the Royal Mail in North London since the winter uprising. The snow made fugitives of us [...]
The Village That Died for Derbyshire
25 February 2009 // Miscellany //On Water
by Charles Holland. Originally published on Fantastic Journal This photograph is taken from a BBC film about Ladybower reservoir made in the 1960′s and on show here. The reservoir was formed in 1943 by flooding the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, including the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton. The church spire of Derwent could be [...]
God’s Own Country
Kevin Sampson reviews ‘God’s Own Country‘ by Ross Raisin, one of our favourite books of last year, out now in paperback: When Ross Raisin burst onto the literary scene with this unusual and strangely compelling debut last year, he was immediately and favourably compared to many a great author. In the popular shorthand of our [...]
Free Soul…notes from a different dancefloor
23 February 2009 // Books //Music
The latest issue of … your heart out is now available. Download it – for free – here: featuring Jorge Ben, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Y Records, Alice Clark, Mo-Dettes, Samia Farah, Catherine Ribeiro, Fay Hallam, Chicca & Intrigo, Ahu/Dolly, Bullion, Paul White ……. Read it on screen. Print it off. Read it on the move. [...]
Laugharne Festival
The third Laugharne Weekend Festival takes place on April 3rd – 5th. Laugharne is best known as the West Wales town that Dylan Thomas based “Under Milk Wood” on, and this is what Dylan called Laugharne “a legendary lazy little black-magical bedllam by the sea”. Festival highlights include Ray Davies, Irvine Welsh, Alexei Sayle, Mark [...]
West End Woodcock
19 February 2009 // Miscellany
We here at the Five Dials/Hamish Hamilton HQ on London’s Strand are wildly excited about the recent sighting of a woodcock in the vicinity. According to a letter in this week’s Country Life, the woodcock flew into the kitchens of our neighbours at Simpsons-in-the-Strand (highly recommended as one of the last vestiges of pre-war London [...]
The Whitewater Pike Takes The Worm
19 February 2009 // Caught By...
Hi Jeff, Duly attached a Pike and a chub. Both caught Monday afternoon on the River Whitewater. The Pike weighed 15lbs and was caught on a freelined lobworm on a barbless size 2 hook and 3.5lb line. My Ghillie, John Andrews of Arcadia landed the pike. The chub was about 3lb 4ozs caught by the [...]
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