...Stairway to Heaven..........

Got to bed at 12.45 last night after the wedding.

Got up at 6.00 to go fishing.

Picked up at 6.45.....breakfast at McD's....20 mile drive to the marvelously named Stoat Hall...don't know why didn't see a stoat all day...or even a weasel!

1 hour prep time....5 hour match. I did well....caught 19 lbs of fish...mainly nice carp....came 4th. Lost 4 good fish! I was fishing to a small island...there were overhanging brambles......I didn't fish too near them...but four good carp took the bait and dived straight into the brambles before I could turn them...lost 2 rigs and 4 hooks.

Back home and I began to edit photos and post blips....6 and a half hours later at 00.47 I'm just finishing.

Since last Wednesday afternoon......we've driven well over 500 miles....I've had no more than 5 and a bit hours sleep at night.....I've taken more than 500 photos....we've met some lovely people....we've laughed....I've done 11 hours fishing....we've been to a triple birthday party....and a wedding....and I've put a smart arse southerner in his place.

Now it's time for bed...my bed...without an iffy mattress....without any leather.....I will try to catch up with you all tomorrow.

If you want to read my adventures in deepest, darkest Wiltshire I've back blipped.

Das vidanya moy padruga.