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...and if you watch the video at the top, then read the background to the Kelham Island hydro scheme and wish that the good folk of Sheffiel...

...Well happy evenings actually!  The festivities with the Drake are now, more or less, over and the little Blue Winged Olives have been s...

There is a weed.  A really weedy weed that has stalks as weak as juliennes of cooked carrot.  Bend it and it snaps.  It has no thorns or sti...

... is certainly browned off too. You would not want to fall in just here just now! Regular Rod

...is an expression the English use to indicate that one is displeased with a situation.  To be "Browned Off" indicates a degree o...

At least seven, rather than three parts to being cheerful yesterday.  This picture post is really an attempt to just begin to explain why fi...

Yesterday was the 147th Anniversary of the day that James Ogden demonstrated to the Duke of Rutland's steward, Robert Nesfield, that t...

Remember on St. Mark's day how the Iron Blue Dun was saving the swallows from starvation? Then in mid-May we had another cold ...

Good, ex-Military, Gore-Tex overtrousers are not expensive and encourage you to take full advantage of their qualities.  It is not an idle b...

Last year This year Same river, same spot, but completely different this time round.  Different weather, different water levels, dif...

Friends are wonderful things to have and be...  This weekend, one of my closest friends, the trumpeter John Barker , and I visited friends i...

Of course nothing in Nature is "useless".  So these flies are not really useless.  However, the fly tier could waste a lot of time...

This evening I had company once more...  He wasn't too bad but he upsets me because he whines pitifully when I release the fish....