Hot and Hard
Saturday was the second of this years outings with SCAC and we were booked for a day on Harelaw...
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Category: Stillwater
Absent Friends
I have ( as I think I intimated in my last blog post) had a week off this week. I really needed a...
Read MoreCarron Valley: An Antidote to Coronavirus
Once again though I cannot tell a lie, rolling up at the Carron Valley car park to get tackled up made me very nervous. This really isn’t like me but it’s strange how 3 months of being told to keep apart and being cocooned in my wee home-bubble has affected my outlook on the world. I am not at all keen to rush out anywhere right now. The garden is mostly just fine for me….just a shame there is no where to sit in it for now…..or a fishing pond!
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Social Distancing?
The season started today ( Tight lines by the way, hope you have a good season….though everything seems somewhat surreal just now), and as I have spent quite a lot of time up at Cocksburn Reservoir over the last couple of weeks, trying to get the boats ready for the new season and a functional mooring to tie them up on securely, I felt that I should head there for my first opportunity to wet a line this year.
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Cabin Fever Relief
Fever seems to be on everyone’s mind right now, though maybe not the “cabin” variety. It feels like forever since I last wet a line, in winter I usually try to get out at some point on a weekend but the weather has been abysmal this last month, especially at weekends. Even on my regular “every other” Friday off’s I have been having- using up the last of my annual leave before the end of the financial year its either blown a gale or tipped down.
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