"Oh, the good life is out there somewhere"

Announced today, the line-up for the Caught by the River Tent at this year's Good Life Experience where I will be performing duties as Master of Ceremonies and for which there are 'early bird' discount tickets available.

In the District Known as West Norfolk

It is almost fifteen years since I first met my old mucker the artist John Richardson and he kindly agreed to cut the art for the dust jacket of my book, 'For All Those Left Behind'.  More recently I returned the favour by writing the foreword to his seminal work 'Being An Observation and a Guide to the Many and Varied Types and Characters of the The Jack Russell Terrier'.  You can see John at work in his district known as West Norfolk in this most splendid film made by my good comrade  Nick Fallowfield-Cooper.  Copies of 'The Jack Russell Terrier' may still be available at the telephone number below.

Caught the River at The Horse Hospital

Across a heath blasted by the last of winter trumpets sound for the artists magnificent who gave their all and to the gracious audience who trooped to the Colonnade behind the Hotel Russell in Bloomsbury on Monday evening last and sold out The Horse Hospital for the first of a number of Caught by the River nights.  Those of you who have requested to read the piece I read aloud entitled 'Don't Wait Until the Perch Have Gone - A Brief History of Caught by the River' can obtain it in print in the next issue of Cally Calloman's  The Eastfolk Chronicle which will be available from 1st April at the Halesworth Cut Arts Centre and elsewhere in Easterly-Anglia-Arcadia.  You can see more of Monday through the lens of my old comrade-in- arms Neil R Thomson at Caught by the River where you may also find a link to buy tickets in advance for the night we have there on Monday 20th March:

Lemonade Hand Grenade

Bought on Sunday morning last on the edge of the old patch a Junior Army & Navy Stores (Aldershot) glass Lemonade bottle complete with its stopper.

'Quite Well Tied in Wormwood Scrubs'

For immediate sale 'Under the Counter, Madam' a quantity of Tackle Lists published between 1987 and 1990 by the late Jamie Maxtone Graham widely recognised as the godfather of antique and vintage fishing tackle dealing and collecting.  Includes the chance to have bought in 1987 'a unique collection of 18 fully dressed named salmon flies, unused and boxed, quite well tied in Wormwood Scrubs jail by Douglas Gordon Goody, one of the Great Train Robbers (1963) who was convicted in 1964 and sentenced to 30 years'.

Arcadia-in-the-Field

If you are a lady or gentleman who read my entry in Rosie Macdonald's Country Queries pages in the February edition of The Field and you are interested in selling a collection of old tackle or in buying the odd item from my website please do not hesitate to telephone me on 07980 274 383.  Thank-you.

The Allcock's Files

My latest column in the bi-monthly magazine Classic Angling is out now in Issue No. 105.  You may subscribe to the magazine by telephoning 07968 820468.