....Oh Sam, Sam you know.....

almost nothing.

Here's the Painless Pole holding forth in the fishing hut again. Sam used to be a technology teacher and he's forever coming up with crack pot ideas, mainly to do with fishing. Usually they're not even original ideas, but his own version of an already existing article in order to save money. He's from Yorkshire you see.

Actually he's not. He's an Israeli. So why do we call him the Painless Pole?
His parents were Polish, but they were displaced during WWII and after the war ended they ended up in Palestine, where Sam and his sister were born. Then they moved to England. So Sam doesn't officially have a country, he's a British citizen by choice.

Any way back to his crack pot ideas, I think this morning's was a floating pole cup for getting bait out to where you're fishing. You can buy little pots that fit on poles so you can drop bait exactly where you want but Sam decided , because he's got a bit of a sore arm, that he needs to put a polystyrene block on the bottom of the pot so it can be pushed out floating, not held in the air. Sounds great.....but Roy's already got one! His other ideas have included making legs for his seat box out of wooden dowel and wrapping them in a layer of thin aluminium, instead of buying proper aluminium legs......taking a leg off an old box and drilling holes in it instead of buying a proper umbrella arm.............and devising a one handed catapult for firing bait into the water, despite the fact that all tackle shops already sell them.

I think this pose was Sam's reaction to my reaction to another strange idea he came up with this morning to do with referees in football matches. I think my response was "Bollocks", to which Sam replied, with pointed finger, "No, no, no, wait a minute..........."

Bet he and Charlie arrive early tomorrow after we pulled a fast one on them last week.

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