Big mouth!

I had to go and open my big mouth didn’t I? Just after updating the review of the Wychwood waders both neoprene socks have stared to leak like a sieve – way beyond my powers of repair. I was tempted to replace them with a pair of Willy J V2s from [...]

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Passing the time

Here I am again. Middle of the night and I’m baby-sitting a database migration – 70 gigabytes of ones and zeros moving silently from Frankfurt to Hamburg. I’ve done all I can; now I have to watch and wait, just in case there’s a problem – when this is done and the Germans have got [...]

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Ozleworth Brook

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Robins, Blackcaps & Tigers

Yesterday, as always, dawn broke to the accompaniment of our resident Robin broadcasting his presence to all and sundry. Already he has a wife and they have started house-hunting in the best looking spots in the garden – I fear they will do as they did last year and favour the neighbours Buddleia as [...]

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Texas Trout

From Fly Fish Chick
It’s a rich blend of troutbums, troutnuts and troutlaws, and at the end of the day they all come together to share their stories. When it’s really hoppin’, Craig is like summer camp for grownups. But with liquor, a jukebox and really big trout.
About as different to Charfield as it could be [...]

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…need to get out more

I’ve just been trawling through the forums where things are getting just a little bit fraught.  It seems that the enforced idleness of a damp & dreary winter is having an adverse affect on the psyche of posters who, normally quite level headed, have resorted to deliberate provocation and nasty barbed retorts.  Some appear to enjoy [...]

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