Hugh Miles Films The Wye
Hi Jeff, Here’s something to help all at Caught by the River celebrate the festive season – a new short film about the nation’s favourite river. As you all know, earlier this year we (‘Our Rivers’) ran a public vote to help find the best and worst rivers in England and Wales. The Wye won [...]
Frosty Norfolk
30 December 2010 // Miscellany
From our pal Charles Rangeley: Dear Jeff, John Andrews told me he was missing the north coast of Norfolk, especially in this frosty weather, and commissioned me to take the camera next time I went out with the dog, to remind him what it looked like. Wondered if other cbtr readers might enjoy a few [...]
Around The A4074
Thanks to Caught by the River reader Tom Crook for bringing this radio documentary to our attention. I really enjoyed it, and if you fancy a listen, do it soon as it’s on the iplayer for just four more days. We are always open to things like this, so please feel free to drop us [...]
A Christmas Message From Chloe
28 December 2010 // Miscellany
Hello Caught by the River, this sign made me smile – I’m doing a very unscientific, personal gazeteer of the bossy signs of Britain (Devon and the Dart Estuary the most so far for some reason) – we snuck into Blenheim early the other morning and saw this one – all non-fishermen at liberty to [...]
Seasons Greetings
24 December 2010 // Miscellany
Happy Christmas dear readers. from Jeff, Robin & Andrew (with a little help from our friends John Richardson and The Davis Sisters). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Pumpkin Corner. By John Richardson.
Caught by the Stort
24 December 2010 // Miscellany
An occasional correspondence from Angela Lambert: The weather has been too bad even for a head-down, collar-up trudge, but this morning I decided it was time to strike out along the riverbank. I want to make a willow wreath and decorate the front door. I’ve seen several beautiful ones in magazines and newspapers. I got [...]
Richardson in Zanderland
23 December 2010 // Richardson in Zanderland
‘Words on Water’ illustrator, John Richardson, has upped sticks and moved east. Here’s how he’s getting on: A letter from Zanderland: In the Deep Midwinter It’s cold. Bloody cold. The penetrating Fenland wind was described by an angler I met as a ‘lazy wind, it can’t be bothered to go round you so it just [...]
Pint by the River
By Roger Clapham This feels almost like some sort of guilty confession or worse still that I’m doing someone’s advertising for them, but this year I found some really good beer in a surprising place – Marks & Spencers. I was never a big fan of M&S – as a child I’d be dragged in [...]
A Poem for the Winter Solstice
by Katherine Venn Cam Ceiliog Welsh for ‘cockerel’s step’, a local name for the Winter Solstice Draw up the darkness, pull it round yourself; let winter settle as the light’s door closes, narrows to the soft, unwinking gaze of just one bright eye. Rest. The path before you has been marked: trust that the light [...]
Last Orders Please
illustration by Edward Ardizonne, from ‘The Local’, published by Little Toller books and on sale in the Caught by the River shop, priced £15.00 Andrew, Robin & I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who made a purchase from the shop this year, either on-line or from the market at The [...]
