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British Councils are too underfunded to install whip skid slalom courses.

Mink are available in all sorts of colours (see coats), but only one level of nastiness (extreme).

In reply to @Ben689908 in the Golf Club thread, who suggested than most coarse anglers wouldn't know where to start on a fast river. True, but neither would most game anglers as most of both breeds spend the majority of their time on overstocked holes in the ground. The ability to Spey cast competently doesn't indicate being any good at fishing, neither does being able to chuck carp baits 120 yards. My original point was that it takes a high degree of skill to coarse fish fast water, particularly with a float. The modern YouTube anglers who only know how to mimic others and spend vast amounts of money on 'essential' gear will always remain clueless.

Rant over. Here's a lovely brownie from yesterday caught on a dry in fast flowing water, using a 1961 Hardy Perfection and 1970s Marquess (I bought the rod because it is the same age as me).

Reply is in fishing thread, where it should be.

At the moment I am hardly leaving the immediate environs of my house, so here's 3 from within 10m. Blurry river of evening mist, sheepses, aurora.

That's called doing the weekly shop, isn't it?

No, do shoot at her...

Both of their voters will be disappointed.

Taxi for the Tory Party (4 sears will be fine)?

The only letters Tory MPs will soon be writing are job applications.

They're Tories, so both of those things are part of the DNA.

Shits deserting a sinking rat?

As I can't do much else at the moment, I'm fishing a bit more than normal. Last week I did a night for carp with 16mm baits, which the tench liked. Gave up counting at about 30, probably caught 50 between 4 and 6lb (zero sleep)! Finally caught 3 carp, biggest 21, with an unusual and rather beautiful scale pattern.

On Friday I went to the Darent and caught probably the biggest wild trout in the stretch on my 3 weight and dry size 16 klinkhammer. I caught and returned the same fish 2 years ago and she went back again unharmed this time.

He is not alone.

Are the bars on the windows to make Aussies feel at home?

Nope, not illegal, but for some daft reason this invasive species is treated like the holy of holies. You'd definitely get lynched if you had one for dinner.

About 3lb, a wild natural fish. Yes, it was caught on a dry which I tied myself. Every year I have a holiday on Exmoor and stop to look at the ridiculous trout beneath the bridge at Stockbridge. They are about as natural as the breasts on a pornstar, which like the trout are fit only for merchant bankers.

The Test at Stockbridge is pure golf club.

In reply to those carp fishing videos: carp fishing is a cult, always has been, those videos are mostly promotional guff for tackle or bait companies which make millions for the owners from the gullible many.

Carp get big by eating lots, therefore, they can't be difficult to catch. I caught a 21 pounder on Wednesday, which rather proves the point.

Using a centrepin reel in fast flowing water takes considerably more skill than casting a fly, I do both (frequently badly).

For that precise reason, sometimes there are actual rules, but generally to conserve the species voluntarily. One of the trout I returned is probably the biggest in a 5 mile stretch of the Darent, prime breeding stock, I also returned the same fish two years ago.

I totally fucking envy you a 27lb salmon, which almost certainly wasn't returned.

This is a reflection of the innate snobbery of humanity, the mongrel breed inhabiting this septic isle being amongst the worst. Everyone seems to want to look down on someone. Coarse fishing can be bloody expensive, the poles used by match anglers cost three times as much as the most expensive salmon rods and the skill levels tend to be higher. You're wrong about fly fishers banging everything on the head and giving it to cook to prepare dinner, most salmon anglers return their catch and I returned three trout yesterday.

Just consider the snobbery between road, tt , MTB, gravel and the humble commuter (who is probably the most legitimate user of bicycles).

A couple of mates and I were chucked out of a Roy Chubby Brown gig for loud heckling and swearing. It's up there with seeing The Police canned off stage supporting the Buzzcocks as moments that still make me happy.

Holy shit, Fred going isn't a surprise to me, he must have been knocking on a bit, but Paul, that's tragic. I remember him going through the back window of a Volvo estate in a CC Bexley evening 10. Another nice guy, I would never have thought of him as being troubled.

Sorry to hear of the passing of Peter Elliott, a thoroughly nice bloke and a good rider when I knew him in the 80s before I moved South. If the BMW is as well kept as his bikes were it'll be pretty mint.

If it drinks more than a rugby team on tour it'll still be a fraction of the cost of an extra vehicle, either purchased or hired.

....and keep it in a dry shed.

Bloody hell, from sensible people carrier to boy racer in two giant leaps for dadkind!