Pleasures of… February
Elbow ‘Build A Rocket Boys!’ From the celestial rumble and swoop of eight minute opening track The Birds (surely to become an anthem for twitchers – ‘The birds / Are the keepers of our secrets’), it’s clear that Elbow’s fifth long-player is the work of a band utterly confident in their own skin. It’s a [...]
Wild In The Big City: Can You Help?
28 February 2011 // Miscellany
Readers who visit the Caught by the River shop will have noticed our stock of fantastic fold out maps produced by Herb Lester Associates. For their latest edition Herb have stepped outside of London to take a look at ‘Old New York’, once again creating something visually cool and distinctly informative, which is something we [...]
Fish of the Stour
27 February 2011 // Miscellany //Shop
Fish of the Stour badge pack, reproduced by Caught by the River from linocuts by Peter Ursem. Now available in the Caught by the River shop. We are also selling postcards featuring Peter’s work. You can find them HERE. Peter’s website.
Nature Studies
26 February 2011 // Miscellany
A while back, we were properly moved by Michael McCarthy’s masterful Say Goodbye To The Cuckoo. The book arrived at a time when the three of us behind Caught By The River started to bring in things into the site from outside our usual comfort zones, at a point where we started to run a [...]
Nick’s Pics
25 February 2011 // Nick's Pics
Squirrel. Words & picture by Nick Small. I’d seen his footprints in the sand at the lake’s edge before and assumed the slender toes to belong to a bank vole or rat. The lapping waves undercut the bank adjacent to our little beach, and I had guessed there to be small mammals enjoying the prime [...]
Social Club
Jon Berry, Charles Rangeley, John Andrews, Luke Jennings. Pic by Danny Mitchell. Thanks to everyone who came along to the Draft House on Monday night for what turned out to be a fantastic evening full of enlightenment and ale. Oh, and Jonny’s music. Weirdly wonderful and watery. An extra special thank you to everyone who [...]
Grayling and Piano Wire.
by Chris McCully. The prescription for Reg Righyni’s trotting float, as given in Grayling (1968), calls for balsa wood and 20-gauge piano wire. What the great man was enjoining his readers to make was in effect a wire-stemmed stick float which would be largely self-cocking and therefore carry only a small amount of lead – [...]
Brook. Trout
A poem by Will Burns. To feel throughout the trickle mingling, an almost molecular blending of things – unable to articulate or discern between the body and the body of water.
Chris Watson Watch
The River Coquet: Film of Chris recording the sounds of the River Coquet in Northumberland for last years Autumnwatch programme. Click here to listen to Chris reading his chapter on the Coquet from the Caught by the River book ‘Words on Water’.
Strom. By Nigel Peake
Strom – a book of drawings made after a week in a cabin in Norway “From above, the yellow fields still held the patterns from the summer machines and were surrounded and locked by blocks of green forest. Paths cut across the land, sometimes interrupted by and at othertimes punctuated by small red cabins. The [...]
