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A vision of King’s Cross
photo.jpg Originally uploaded by Jolyon. — read more
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Fly-fishing on the Wiltshire Avon
River Avon SDFFA waters Weather: Mild with a little sun but occasional blasts of drizzle; windy but warm in sheltered spots Rod: George Maurer “Harry’s Rod” 8’ 5wt (This is one of Maurer’s last rods, as he died while this was just getting to completion — it was finished for me by the Dietrich brothers).… — read more
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The virtue of cheap rods
I sometimes paint. Pictures, not houses. If I start with a blank white canvas, I often find it difficult to get started, so I tend to just scrub all over the canvas with raw umber and then once it’s ‘ruined’ I can get on with the painting without spoiling the lovely pristine whiteness. This is… — read more
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Happy cat
Originally uploaded by Jolyon. — Little My. — read more
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Fishing pants
Weather stops play. Again. Due to the high water levels, the June weed-cut has been postponed for one week and will now start on Tue 10 June above Crossing C, provided the water levels are low enough to permit the Environment Agency to place its boom (which catches the floating weed) across the river at… — read more
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Wilderness etiquette
“The etiquette of the wild world requires not only generousity but a good-humoured toughness that cheerfully tolerates discomfort, an appreciation of everyone’s fragility, and a certain modesty.” Gary Snyder, The Etiquette of Freedom (from ‘The Practice of the Wild’). — read more
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Leonardo di Caprio
Watching “The Aviator” tonight, it occurred to me that what DiCaprio conveys—and it is his eminently watchable, tragic attraction for us—is the essential pointlessness and cheapness of what we desire, while depicting its desirableness in all its short-term glory. I used to loathe him, but please consider the fineness of his work in The Aviator,… — read more
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Casting click
I was down in B__ Square today, flicking a line around after the Winter layoff. Quick thought on casting that works for me, though YMMV. If I am practising, and just go for a cast, I tend to get it wrong and the line underpowers, or I ‘creep’ or get tailing loops. However—tada, drumroll etc—if… — read more
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Tangled up in line
Yesterday evening, I thought I’d string up a rod to have it permanently handy for popping down to the Square for a bit of casting practice. A quick two minute job, no? No. First, as soon as I got the rod out—I’d chosen the ZXL 8’ 5wt—the cats went bonkers and started twirling round uttering… — read more
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Sunrise
Light started to creep into the sky at about 5.30 this morning. Spring is here and you can feel Summer just around the corner. does the red dawn delight you snail? —Issa (1805) — read more
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