I have no time for Harry Potter. None. This makes me an anomaly in a house full of Potter fanatics. Everyone here has read every book a zillion times and seen all of the films. My daughter has been listening to one of the audio books at X 0.6 speed so that the experience can go on for longer, ideally forever. She even sat me down the other day to find out which of Hogworth´s four houses my personality profile would match me to. I needed to answer a series of questions until a virtual sorting hat algorithm decided that I was Gryffindor, just like HP himself.
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Paul Daniels used to have this magic kettle. It would pour out anything that anybody wanted. I am not just making this up. It is true. I saw it on the telly. When he told the audience that the modest metal kettle he had in his hand could dispense any drink that anybody might want, everyone was sceptical. Why not? Who wouldn’t be?
Continue readingI have just come back from the reservoir at El Chorro where my cunning plan had been to extract a carp from the margins. I´m afraid I have to report (once again!) that I had no success. The last time I fished there I brought a foolish young dog that proceeded to leap into the water and charge up and down the shallows, scaring the hell out of the carp and every other aquatic organism in possession of a nervous system and so my lack of success was not unexpected.
Continue readingThis article was published in Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Monthly, December 2024
Hey! I have some good news for you. You know how you don´t catch as many fish as anyone else? Come on, let´s face it. It´s true! The same is true of me and I understand that this can result in envy and a deep sense of personal worthlessness. You don´t think you´re that bad? Come on! Just look at the rest of the pages in this magazine. Check out the amazing flies everyone else is tying – way better than yours! And then there are the fish everyone else is hauling out – more than you ever catch, way bigger too.
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