Promise fulfilled

Half an hour before sunrise; -4c and bone dry. On the Cotswolds side of the valley the dawn was a perfect, cloudless Homeric rosy-pink, rising to a powder blue canopy before descending into a bruised pink/purple/grey smudge over the Forest of Dean. Here and there it was torn by cotton-wool contrails spear-headed by [...]

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Geek Log

Every year I promise that I will keep a fishing log but this season I really, really intend to. Honest!.

Being a geek I have decided to do this digitally – here’s the plan:

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I’m being teased

I took Bosun out for a much needed run yesterday – he’s been sadly neglected over the last few days.  I pulled up in my usual parking spot & knew immediately that I’d made a mistake.  I tried to reverse out but my instinct proved to be correct; I was well and truely stuck and [...]

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A short season

The opening day in Wales has come and gone with no chance of wetting a line.  Too much rain and more to come have put the mockers on all our hopes of targeting early season trout.  One or two hardy souls ventured out, more in hope than expectation but I wonder if their frustration was any [...]

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