Alfred Wainwright Monument
18 February 2009 // Caught By...
Great piece that friend of the river Ben Myers wrote this for the Guardian about the famous guide book writer.
A Pint of Barbus Barbus
18 February 2009 // Food and Drink
from Butt’s Brewery, Barbus barbus, described as ‘a cask ale, hoppy and well balanced without being sweet (4.6%ABV)’ “This is where it all started to go pear shaped as far as branding goes. Barbel bitter was one of the original ideas in day one, after being told it would just sell to a few quirky [...]
Danny & The Champions of the World
Jeff, Yeah, still doing my bit for the royal mail – totally loving it – feels good. Have a sealed copy of the Oxford American with your name on it here mate – will be up in soho early on Thursday night – you about? Can drop it to you or have a quick pint [...]
Support Your Local River – Wandle Cleanup: February 2009: Sutton
17 February 2009 // Miscellany //On Water
The one with the dead trout and the six-shooter…by Theo (The Wandle Trust); For the second time in as many months, the weather was surprisingly kind to us for this cleanup. Sub-zero overnight temperatures melted away to leave the Riverfly monitors wondering if it was shirtsleeve time again – and while there was still a [...]
Letter From Arcadia
Down at the Old Bull & Boar ja been a long silence, half a winter long, the bobbins so still they’ve been frozen in time, bookmarks in a russian novel. the bird table gazette suspended its evening edition; if you fish black holes you get what’s coming to you. so, while your own heaths and [...]
Five Dials issue 5 online now
Something of a WG Sebald special (and including a piece by Roger Deakin that we’d not seen before), the latest edition of Hamish Hamilton‘s Five Dials magazine is online and ready for your perusal over the weekend. Click here to download.
Southern Death Cult
True Blood, coming to Channel 4 this spring, is the great new series from Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under. Based on Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse mystery novels and set in a swampy Louisiana it mixes serial killers, voodoo and vampires. The vamps have have come ‘out of the coffin’ and are the latest [...]
The Inchbeg Fishing School
12 February 2009 // Caught By...
The River Field from Hannah Hamilton; The Inchbeg Fishing School was started by my father, Jack Hamilton, in 1996. Jack grew up just over the road in the house we currently live in, and fished these waters every day as a boy in the 1930s. It was always his dream to own The River Field, [...]
Sea Eagle in Cumbria
12 February 2009 // Miscellany
Twitchers rejoice! A giant sea eagle has been sighted on the Cumbria coastline this last week for the first time in more than 200 years. Click here to read the story.
“Hackney – That Rose Red Empire”
Nineteen years ago, on moving to London with a thinner waist and a head full of functioning grey matter, my father dropped me off in Hackney. Although my older brother had been living all over London for a few years, he’d never stepped foot in the borough. Here was entirely unmapped terrain. Forced by academic [...]
