Dads Dawn and Dusks
Thanks chaps for taking time and trouble to comment - very kind comments. There are plenty more offerings to FM already logged in Geoff‘s ‘editorial for consideration database‘ and several more on the way, complete with decent imagery which i think adds so much to an article.
The wicker basket - well, since the early seventies Mark I have tried not to eat too many pies..ha, seriously, my basket, which was seriously secondhand when it was gifted to me, has loosened and become somewhat wobbly on several occasions. You did the right thing by dunking it Mark as they do dry out - given your bottom fell out, so to speak, perhaps yours was completely dehydrated by then! Every so often, of a summer month, mine goes on holiday for a day and swims for 24 hours in my garden water butt. Then it is left (not in the heat of the day) to dry and that returns it to ‘new’ . It is starting to go a little wonky, but hey, I’m 50 also and my body is also starting to fray a little round the edges!
Good memories about Mitchells Cliff - I vaguely remember the ad you are talking about, that, the writings of **** Walker, and seeing a Mitchell in the tackle shop window inspired me to get an assistant’s job with our doorstep Milkman when I was seven or eight years old. No legislation then preventing an enthusiastic nipper earning a few bob. Boy was I chuffed, when a few years later, I worked every day with Adam the milko, and also delivered bread and eggs, and glass bottled orange juice..and earned a lovely crisp brown ten bob note. Wow... come on down Mr Mitchell 300!
Graham/Peter - pleased I have brought back a few memories. Good ol’ days, eh... and with an ebay name of Roachtench, you can probably work out my favourite species. Tight lines, Gary