Annual Netting at AP!

I’ve been over to Angler’s Paradise this morning with my video camera, filming some of the annual netting at Zyg’s. He nets a different lake every year and this year, it’s the turn of the Main Carp lake. It’s always a fully-booked out event with at least one well-known angler present and I was delighted [...]

Flurried Friday!!

Well, it may sound a bit silly, but today has been one of those days which involve short bursts of intense activity – much like most days in this house! We went into town to do the usual banking, Post Office, sundries, etc. and then on our return, started checking calls that had come in, [...]

Surprise!

Nick enjoys every visit he makes to Wales – he gets a welcome second to none from everyone at Peterstone Lakes and they look after him right royally! Martin Cronin (Fishery Manager & Birch Syndicate leader), had arranged a little surprise for Nick yesterday and I had a hard time keeping a secret.
Secrets there have [...]

Claire waffles about the Match!!

As most of you know Nick was fishing with Martin Cronin in the inaugural Reels-On-Wheels carp match this weekend and I was going to act as their runner keeping them fed and watered and generally looking after the pair of them.
So straight after work on Friday I loaded up my minibus with all the food [...]

A couple of days in Wales…

Nick phoned last night to tell us how the evening had gone at Ancaster and revealed that he’d become rather emotional during his speech… Peter Guest from Freebird Design Ltd. had to come to his rescue.  
Now that’s been a long time coming. I remember how emotional he got when we first started on this [...]

Every cloud has a silver lining.

It’s just as well, isn’t it? Nick phoned me this morning from Woodland Waters to tell me that Martin Cronin wasn’t going to be able to compete in the match as he’d been let down by the person covering him this weekend. It’s such a shame, as they were both looking forward to the match [...]

And away he drove…

Well Nick left at around midnight last night to get as far as Birmingham by about 4-4.30am this morning. The traffic must have been pretty much non-existent as he was just leaving the M1 to turn off onto the A17 when I spoke to him a little while ago. However, he did say that he [...]

Off to Lincolnshire tonight!

I’m off to Lincolnshire tonight as I promised Joe Drury (my Buddy from the Wales Carp Masters), that I’d go down to Ancaster a day early to help him with the final set-up for this weekend’s Charity Match.
I really wasn’t looking forward to the long, cold nights but now I’ve got my Prologic Max-4 Thermo-wear, at least [...]

Just another Manic Monday!

Yesterday there was an Auto Jumble at Hatherleigh Market, which meant an earlier than usual start – up at 6 o’clock and out on the road by 7am! It was a long, tiring and fairly stressful day and I didn’t sell anything but a landing net/handle set. The raffle was better, as there were more stalls… [...]

HMRC Charities

As you know, we haven’t yet raised the £5000 necessary to satisfy the regs which the Charities Commission follow, but the lady who responded to our initial application informed us of an alternative. It all seemed pretty complex and being on a bit of a downer after we had failed in our initial application, I [...]