Letter From Arcadia
New Angleterre and the Field of Honnor. ja french arcadia is lifting its antimacassars. apologies for the months without word or picture. whilst you were drinking winter tea at the dog track sunrise in efgeeco city, i was detained in my own labour camp, serving time on piece-work, funding the war on want. now time [...]
The Joy of Music Remembers Gene Clark
30 May 2011 // Radio //Remembering Gene Clark
Our favourite music radio show this week embraced Remember Gene Clark day and played our GC compilation in full. If you missed out on the download here’s your chance to hear it as Sean Rowley makes it this week’s All Back to Mine: Listen on the iplayer for the next six days.
Owlet Live
30 May 2011 // Birds
It may take a while for this guy to shuffle into view, but it’s worth the wait – too cute, though apparently has a dark streak of cannibalism so also a little bit dangerous heliganwild.com/webcams The Barn egg is supposed to have hatched, I’ve only seen the adult snoozing thus far, but I’m on nights [...]
Kite’s Country
(Previous posts relating to Major Oliver Kite can be found HERE) Jeff love the Oliver Kite film. There is a small Oliver Kite museum (more of a display but i like the sentiment that one cabinet and some print can be a museum) in the bar of the Arundel Arms in Devon, a hotel run [...]
Kite’s Country
Our request to readers for information regarding the late Oliver Kite (CBTR, 26 May) has resulted in a net full of replies. Though there are some that question his motives, Major Kite most definitely left his mark on the world of flyfishing. His techniques, his broadcasting and his writings (his book Nymph Fishing in Practise, [...]
Caught by the Reaper – Glyn Hughes
Pic (Glyn in 1996) is from the Halifax Evening Courier. Author, poet and artist Glyn Hughes, often referred to as the voice of the North has died, aged 76, after (with typical stubbornness) giving cancer a bit of a battle. Nick Small pays his respects. Glyn settled in the small Pennine hamlet of Mill Bank, [...]
Caught by the River presents ‘On Nature’
The time has come to announce our new book. On Nature, the follow up to 2009′s Words on Water, is scheduled for publication by Harper Collins at the end of next month. The original concept was a guide book, a sort of Caught by the River guide to country pursuits, with contributors sharing their enthusiasm [...]
Oliver Kite
note taken from YouTube: A tribute to Oliver Kite Pt.1 of 8. Extremely rare footage taken from the long deleted video of Ollie’s only existing TV shows at Southern Television in the 1960′s. Completely captivating and charming films of a master countryman, broadcaster, naturalist, writer and fisherman – a great influence on those fortunate to [...]
Played Out On Machines Of Loving Grace
Adam Curtis documentaries seem to come purpose built to blow minds. Monday night’s All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace was no different – a tangled web treatise on the modern world that effortlessly linked the undisputable problems in our financial systems back to the Rush inspiring author Ayn Rand. It’s hard – pointless [...]
Competition Result
Thanks to everyone who entered Sunday’s competition. The lucky winner of a pair of weekend tickets to this year’s Truck festival is Kathy Magee. Congratulations. It looks sure to be a brilliant weekend. It was of course, Saint Etienne who released, ‘A Glimpse Of Stocking’ for Christmas 2010.
