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I cast out a little caramel jointed nymph without much hope, but caught a little perch who was terribly angry. The most enormous, red, dragonfly sat with me, too lazy, hot or tired to move It was magnificent. Someone had thought to bring along a pork pie, the pregnant woman’s best friend, which I dipped into heavily while distracting everyone by saying, “is that a fish?”But there was no fishie action. Occasionally a duck would duck for what seemed like ages, leaving the echo of a ripple, and we would all get very excited and think it was a fish rising But no. The two lakes were pretty choked up with blanket weed, a common annoyance when the weather’s been so hot.My boyfriend stayed with Ben and Sarah, who had obviously been really well taught as they were casting very well indeed I went over to the other bank and sat on a bench. My boyfriend took a selection to the water’s edge and Ben had a cast and, in the end, decided the Grey’s was for him. I advised him not to buy anything just yet as we had plenty spare rods for them to use.

So off we set for nearby Pang Valley lakes, as the lake at the Sportfish shop was closed, which was a shame as there was much fishie action.It was 2pm by the time we arrived at Pang Valley and I was keen to see what was in Ben and Sarah’s picnic basket We feasted by the water’s edge. Always a good sign for a jolly day.First we went to Sportfish in Reading to try some rods – Ben was keen to throw himself head first into fly fishing now that he had discovered it (he and Sarah had been on an Arundell Arms course in the summer).This is one of the few places close-ish to London where you can have a go with rods on actual water instead of having to waggle them about on a shop floor. Newly reformed, he and his wife, Sarah (12ft 5in the pair of them, laid end to end), had come fishing with us I was heartened by the size of their picnic basket. However, it could have been even more exciting if Ben, the owner of the pimp-mobile, had not sold his Ferrari some years ago (imagine how incongruous that would have been).
According to Ben, most of his previous fishing had been done “at night” and, let’s just say, without all the necessary paperwork All a very long time ago, I’d like to point out. It gave me a certain thrill, I must admit, to arrive at a fishery in a Jaguar with blacked-out windows.

Was his anger at the sport an aesthetic one or merely an irritation that he had not coped with it as well as he would have liked? So here is a piece of research for art historians: what was Monet’s handicap?d.lister independent.co.uk
More from David Lister. The paintings that Monet did on the Normandy coast were accompanied by an illuminating text, which told how the artist complained that the “English game of golf” was leading to new courses spoiling the coastline It also said that Monet had played golf himself. Sadly, actors, unlike rock groups, don’t tend to have encores up their sleeve.¿ A genuine highlight of this year’s Edinburgh Festival was the Monet exhibition at the Royal Scottish Assembly. It was a riotous occasion and the only night at the theatre that I can recall where the audience kept shouting for more, even after the safety curtain had fallen. Go out and expose yourself to some comedians.¿ I went to the last night of the Madness musical Our House in the West End last weekend. The show seemed far too enjoyable to be coming off early, but such is the parlous state of the tourist-free zone that is the West End.