Do the French just fish for peace and quiet?
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Getting the welcome email from Saga (or was it so long ago that it was a welcome mailshot?) was one of the less pleasing birthday surprises of the last few decades. It’s not that I make a secret of my age: it’s just that I don’t want anyone to know.Richard and Sharon wrote:Depends on the definition of young, despite getting Saga junk mail, I have not much chance of even meeting most peoples definition of a grown up yet, and its probably too late to bother about trying.
As for sport, at least Bridge was rejected. Oh, for the chance to fight a mackerel!
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Fishing fans might enjoy this, if only to know that they have it easy round here. It’s well worth playing the audio clip. If you don’t know strine, a tinny is a fairly flimsy open-decked boat made out of sheet aluminium.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/anima ... wf55m.html
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/anima ... wf55m.html
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Occasionally fishing from a kayak, that is a scary story!
If I survived being jumped on by a fish that size in my kayak, there is only one honourable course of action. An image from Hemingways Old Man and the Sea, springs to mind, where he lashes the fish to the side of his boat after the fight because it was too big to get on board.
Earlier, during the fight, he said "Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends" Just as that old Aussie effectively did in the link.
For a brief moment, I almost felt relieved that the fish are so small around here.
If I survived being jumped on by a fish that size in my kayak, there is only one honourable course of action. An image from Hemingways Old Man and the Sea, springs to mind, where he lashes the fish to the side of his boat after the fight because it was too big to get on board.
Earlier, during the fight, he said "Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends" Just as that old Aussie effectively did in the link.
For a brief moment, I almost felt relieved that the fish are so small around here.
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The safest way, apparently, to view sharks is from within a cage. Or not.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz4bPQmqUrM
(Watch to the end.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz4bPQmqUrM
(Watch to the end.)