I have to admit that deciphering Alston’s handwriting does not get easier, and I hope that anyone interested will find... Read More
I am not here to praise Fishing Breaks or suggest that you book a day on a chalk stream with... Read More
Hay on Wye is that charming town straddling the river and the England/Wales boundary. We all know it for its... Read More
Illustrated by Marvin Huggins. First published 2020. Available from Amazon at around £9.50 pp164 A strange one this. It is... Read More
Little by little the boxes of books are being unpacked and placed in their new Herefordshire bookshelves. Many are, of... Read More
Another bleak day in Norfolk, and hard to believe this is the start of July – though of old I... Read More
By a raft of good fortune and with a lot of help from friends, I am in the market for... Read More
After the festive period has been and gone, I felt a quick return to the Alston letters would be of... Read More
I am, of course, obsessed with the Wye now, like I was as a child in the very early Sixties.... Read More
Mid-July, down here in Devon, on the Exe where temperatures hit 30 degrees plus most of yesterday afternoon. The whole... Read More
www.avonroachproject.co.uk A book review should be objective and the reviewer should be as invisible as possible. However, in the case... Read More
For reasons some might guess, I’m on my way North on Sunday/Monday coming. I’m around the Eden first, and then... Read More
So, Monday, I caught trout, but a fraction of the basket I would have expected back in 1981 when I... Read More
A friend has just sent me a veiled diatribe in a recently published book. In it, although I am not... Read More
In nearly all ways this letter speaks for itself. Buller’s “The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike” was published first in... Read More
Since my recent piece on the Exe I’ve been made aware of RETA, and many thanks for that Godfrey! The... Read More
Well, what a complete treat. Had it not been for the admirable John Stephenson of Thomas Turner, I wouldn’t even... Read More
Edited by Peter Wheat Published by Frederick Warne, 1967. 18/- (90p) There are many copies of this seminal book on... Read More
Monday, my first day back on the three mile beat of upper Bure that I rented forty years ago. It... Read More
It’s a cold, dank day, with a vicious Northerly wind blowing down the valley. Hardly what I’d expect for the... Read More
This is going to be nip and tuck. My goal of catching a barbel every month of the winter hangs... Read More