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Caught in a spell.

17 Tuesday Jul 2018

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carp, fishing, hackney, lea, london, moon, new, phases, river

An email arrived from Dexter Petley last Monday, the email began ‘hope the new moon is still working for you. It’s the only time I bother now, especially on these big lakes.  I blank for 28 days every month, then get three runs at once on new moons.’

I have not kept an eye on the moon phases for a while, normally they are in my psyche, a glance to the heavens re-align my monthly cycle but recently I’ve been distracted, the hot weather doesn’t help although I love the current heatwave, early mornings are fine, still and cool, but as the temperature rises I loose focus, days are drawn out, they slow and I meander:

A few days after Dexter’s email there was a new moon, an opportune moment to cast a line on my local River Lea for an hour or two before the sun takes too high, I wanted to see if the carp were once again under a spell? On two occasions (once with Dexter) the carp responded freely under such conditions, almost instantly, somehow the moon made carp fishing easy, as if that was possible? It was 9.15am when I arrived by the river, I watched a favourite spot for a while, although I sat in the shade I could feel the heat, this was a summer to remember and I wanted a new moon carp to grace my net just like the previous year and the year before that. Normally I can see cruising carp as they move from deeper, cooler water into the shallows, I was hoping they had their tails high in the water levitated by moonbeams as they sifted through the silt. After thirty minutes, nothing, no carp stirred,  the spell had  not been cast on these river monsters, I didn’t wet a line. As the heat intensified I decided to take a wander, perhaps they were holding out further down river. The path by the Lea was dabbled in shade and light, the heat was still building, only the river flow and the high branches showed any signs of movement, everything else was still, caught in the spell of high summer, alas the carp were nowhere to be seen.

Happy Birthday Mr Jones.

08 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by The tuesday swim in Music

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2013, 66, are, birthday, bowie, david, glass, low, new, now, philip, release, warszawa, where, you

David Bowie seems to have crept out of the limelight for good. Three events that probably contributed to this were, becoming a father for the second time, the events of 9/11 on his doorstep (witnessed by his wife Iman from their apartment) and finally having a heart attack in 2004. Bowie is now reputed to be drug and alcohol free, and has even kicked the life long love of cigarettes. He can now be spotted in Manhattan perusing the book shops on occasion, Bowie has finally closed the door on fame and his public life, in fact he has been reported to have changed his name back to Jones.

His Manhattan apartment has been designed to reflect an old English style country house with large fire places, high ceilings and wood panelling, one hopes that in his library of many books lies a stuffed 2lb roach, cased with the inscription “2lb Roach caught on the Hampshire Avon by Captain Freecloud January 8th 1932.” Somehow I feel Mr Jones is not a piscator but I will raise a glass tonight in their honour. To Captain Freecloud and a true original in New York.

Happy Birthday Mr Jones…

Well blow me down with a feather, thank you Neil for the prompt. Seems like Mr Jones has been lost in a Manhattan book shop and Bowie is back!

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