Further Balm

Back again with another episode of

“If you can't be on the riverbank. I'm happy to do it for you"

Fingers crossed this doesn’t turn into a feature to rival the longevity of Coronation Street.

In river news, today I cut weed. Haven’t had to cut it at this time of the year since 2014. It’s a tremendous feeling and all hail the forces of winter rain and reasonable groundwater flow. The aim was to reduce the river level by a few inches around the fishing hut in order to allow banks to dry out and a bridge of sorts to be fashioned and a bit of bank to be mended.



This week we received recommendations from on high that we must consider delaying the start of the season.

I’m not sure that there is a huge level of risk to be had from jumping in a car and driving to a mile and a bit of the best chalk stream in the world where the keeper has studied self distancing to Ninja level.

but hey, we are where we are,

Oh yes, our postponed trip to Porto. Air BnB chap was very understanding, but my goodness BA are wriggling over refunds for flights.

As ever,

Keep em Peeled



An addendum:

While the pervious clip of Shaw Taylor giving of his best was recorded in the year that I first started falling into this stretch of the Dever, any resemblance to either of the sketches of possible suspects, is purely coincidental.