Firstly, let me apologise for not making as many blogposts as I have done in the past. To be perfectly frank, Nick is not as fit as he was last year, but let’s keep that between us, shall we? It is our intention to stay local – SouthWest region – this year for various reasons: [...]
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That’s right folks! We have a poet amongst the Reels On Wheels supporters.
He is our very own human tidalwave, Gary. Here are a few of his poems he has written in the last few weeks.
This first one is about the work Reels On Wheels do:
We build the bridge, we set the stage
We grant the anglers’ [...]
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Here are some photos from this weekend’s celebration of fishing… Claire and Katy cooking:
You can see the lads hovering in the background, waiting (im)patiently!
Jon and Andy soaking up the atmosphere…
Let the fun begin!
Like other anglers who were there this weekend, Jim took his entire family! Katy (wife) helped out Claire, who is a corker of [...]
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Here are some more pics Nick sent through today. Here’s Charlie Flack (Manderson Trust) with Jim (5Cs, also disabled through chemical poisoning – which doesn’t account for the headgear!)
Seb and his Dad (chauffeur, carer, general factotum!)
Apparently, Jim and Seb have made Charlie laugh so much, he was ill… *rolls eyes* Standing next to Seb is Jon [...]
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Well, Reels on Wheels is officially over a year old and celebrating the fact this weekend at The Manderson Trust, Over, Cambridgeshire. Nick and Claire arrived there early this morning to prepare for the arrival of guests, erect the Marquee, etc. and meet the Manderson Trustees who graciously rented us Lake No.1 for the weekend’s [...]
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The Fishing Festival is only three weeks away now, and there are a lot of people looking forward to it, for my part I’m both excited and nervous about it.
Excited because it should be a fun weekend meeting loads of new friends and fishing in two matches, I have only ever fished a carp match before [...]
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We would all like to thank publicly all the members of the Reels On Wheels FORUM for all their support for the Fishing Festival we will be holding in June. Not only those who will be attending and helping us produce a party atmosphere for the weekend, but those who cannot attend and have purchased raffle tickets [...]
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Our Fishing Festival raffle keeps growing and growing: We have been writing, emailing and phoning all the tackle and bait companies we can think of to try and get some raffle prizes.
The reaction from the angling industry has been amazing! We have received so many bits and pieces that we are now able to offer [...]
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The Fishing Festival is fast approaching so in an effort to publicise our great event and to fill the final places we have been busy chatting to various magazines both online and in print, to see if they would like to cover our event or even attend the event to do some live coverage.
All Together Now, [...]
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I asked Claire to post this on the ROW Forum earlier, as she’s organising it in her role a volunteer Administrator (and she’s making a great job of it, too!):
Fishing Festival 7th and 8th June 2008
The finalised details of the fishing festival are as follows.This will be a two-day festival of fishing for EVERYBODY: We [...]
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