Does the world make much sense to you? If it does, even in a small way, you are doing much better than me. Much of what I know about the state of the world I learn from podcasts as I walk my dog along the quiet, meandering tracks of our beautiful Andalusian campo. Listening to the news keeps me broadly in the loop, but it is hardly cheerful. I may be surrounded by peaceful landscapes, but my headphones connect me to the woes of distant parts of the world. Even nature struggles to help at times. A little owl may be peering down at me from a telegraph wire as news comes in of the latest madness from Washington, or some random cruelty meted out to innocents far away.
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Rescued by a night-flowering cactus
October 14, 2026
A nice little stretch of river
Filed under: Fish and fishing, Fishing reports, Flies and fly tying, Natural history, Other bits and bobs — 2 Comments
October 4, 2026
Thinking about it now, it seems very strange that it took me so long to discover the little stretch of river I fished yesterday. The river itself, the Río Turón, is not very far from home and apparently it has always been there! I guess the truth is, whenever I had been in that part of the world, I have been tempted into fishing the margins of the Conde del Guadalhorce reservoir and it is into reservoir that the Turón flows, ending its 40 kilometer journey from its source in the Sierra de Las Nieves.
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