Category: 2019

On Shorter Days

When I awoke ( not sure I was really sleeping) on Sunday round 07:30 the trees were giving it “laldie” being disturbed by gusty winds. Nymphing for Grayling requires good line control and having the wind bow the delicate line ‘twixt rod tip and water is no good to man nor beast. I wasn’t going to drive 130 miles round trip to be defeated by the weather. Nope, I chose early capitulation and went back to bed for a few hours!

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Cold Relief

I was off on holiday last week, doing the tourist thing around Edinburgh and Glasgow. It is funny that while I have travelled a fair bit over seas in my immune suppressed state and presumably am exposed to foreign bugs, that it was on home shores in my home town that I caught a heavy cold.

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