Had a few sessions fishing recently....

This last past month has been hard going, out on the good 'ole Trent not many barbel or chub showing themselves, but the roach are having a go on hemp and tares.

In fact it's been that hard with the barbel, mainly because the rivers low and running clear, so I've tried night fishing for 'em, but to no avail, I think it's time to leave the boilies and pellets alone for a while "at least until we get some flood water and colour in the river" and go back to basics, with the maggots hemp and caster approach, on the stick float instead of just staring at rod tips!

I cannot believe how well England are now playing "the way they played in the recent friendly and Euro qualifier", compared to the disappointing performance out in South Africa "it makes me wander if they just don't want to win another world cup!" and I bet I'm not the only one thinking that way, either!

Autumn is just around the corner and it won't be long before this year is over and done with. Plenty of work on at the moment, but there is just never enough hours in a day, oh well carry on regardless, as they say...

Some Of The Music That I've been Listening To Recently....

To start with, this one by Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack (full version)....

 

Been having trouble embedding videos from YouTube, the blasted videos wouldn't embed (must be something to do with Google & YouTube)!, damn copyright rules & regulations, so I ended up downloading them using RealPlayer Software onto my PC, so then I could upload them to the blog, but it takes ages, kills my broadbands bandwidth & made me swear a few times Grrrrrrrr...

Onwards with the playlist & a couple of golden oldies next, first one by Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson, made a famous hit from the film called The Graduate....

Also this one by The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset....

Daft Poems.....

You've heard the tale of 'Robin Hood And how he did poor people good,
But there is more to this famous story of Sherwood Forest's pride and glory.

At night when all the robbing was done, The merry men would have some fun,
in fact it would be fair to say, The merry men were rather gay.

As Little John starts to unwind, Robin takes him from behind,
And as they frolic in the grass, Robin rams it up his ass.

One night when they were all at play, A gorgeous maiden came their way,
She sauntered up to Friar Tuck, And said  "I'm Marion - wanna fuck?"

The Friar could not believe his ears, "she's offering sex to us old queers!"
While he recovered from his shock, Robin presented her with his cock.

Marion's clothes were off in a flash, The three merry men all had a bash,
For marion this was sheer bliss, As they filled her every orifice.

When all the work was done, she gave a whine, "Thank you boys for a loverly time",
But for the pleasure you must pay, "I've got the pox", have a nice day.

"Now listen hear", Said Friar Tuck, "We really dont give a fuck,
The laughs on you, you silly cow, we've all got Aids, So who's fucked now!"

Angling Trust News....

Whilst browsing the AT's website the other week, I came across an article with some very bad news for angling, it looks like the EA & DEFRA have accidently abolished the close season on our rivers, for more info visit this link ----> Legal Loophole Lets Poachers off the Hook looks like they have got a lot to answer for....

Just A Quick One....

Been doing a bit of browsing recently & came across a new site by the Barbel Society & the first article posted on there by Pete Reading  on behalf of the Barbel Society, although it's still under construction, it looks like there is finally a public site to ask questions/information of/about the Barbel Society! This'll be interesting to see how it devolops!

I'm not much of a blogger....

But i decided to give it a go anyway, as another project like the other one of building my own PC, i decided to have a go at blogging, which not just about being a diary but more about learning all the skills & techniques involved in website designing.

So that's how this came about, unfortunately i then became self employed & don't get much time to spend to myself let alone blogging on a regular basis, however I'll just plod along Merrily at my own pace & we'll see how it goes.

A Brilliant Version!

Well the title says it all! a brilliant version.

Well, You Cannot Always Get Your Own Rode,Eh!

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Bang went the plans of a Sunday afternoons fishing session, ended up cutting a big old horse chestnut tree down in some horse fields over at Gunthorpe, that had been struck by lighting a few times. It was also hanging over the roadside, & also the local authority had put an order on it to be cut down, so it had to come down, before the time limit had ran out, or the local authority would cut it down at the owners expense. No problem, gets there looks at the tree & sussed the job out, of how we were going to cut this tree down, anyway everything went great until we had got to the two branches that were over hanging the main road, i went up the main trunk & sent a rope round the first over hanging branch, gets down & pulls up the tension of the rope, up goes Glenn ( the owner of the horse fields ) with the chainsaw & away he goes, we'd got the first branch down into the field, sound, but then came the problem, roadside over hanging branch no.2, same thing again sent the rope up round the branch & pulled it tight, Glenn goes up again starts cutting away at it until it starts to creek, so i yanked back on the rope & down comes the branch, sods law the bastard thing went through the hedgerow on to the cycle path & into a lane of on coming traffic, so here's two daft sods on Sunday afternoon diving through an hedge row with a pair of chainsaws to get this big branch that weighed about half a ton off the main road & cycle path, luckily Glenn's old man was watching the roadside & guided the traffic round, so there weren't any accidents, thank Christ, the only damage done was a broken fence panel & post on the cycle path.

So after clearing all that up & repairing the fence, we stopped for a fag break & then put all the gear back in the van, & then this thought occurred to myself about why tree fellers charge so much money for doing these jobs, its to cover the public liability insurance policy you need, so just like what happened to us this afternoon, when these unfortunate accidents happen, you don't get sued the arse off.

Bloggin On

Time To Move On, Me Thinks

Don't know whats been going on with the Barbel Society of late but every time it's mentioned on the forums, certain individuals have to come out in it's defence! & it seems like it's doing more harm than good, that's another one of those reasons why i haven't joined! ( politics) now that's an understatement! it gets worse from there on, eventually the tides will turn, as they say! eh? the panel of communications chairman ( Fred Bonney) aka:  forum Fred seems to like getting into fights amongst the members & ex members, this ain't a good thing at all & I'll sooner invest my money into something like the Angling Trust, at least there; there are arguments with some meaning to them, at least with some clout.

Take for instance the other night on BFAMW;  Fred, getting into fights with Tony Rocca, Mike Joyce & Chris Pearson. This in itself  isn't helping the BS it's alienating the problems from within the said society, to be honest I personally don't know where this all started! but it goes way back in time, further than the times when Ray Walton was involved in the makings of the then ( new ) BS, unfortunately now it's full of retiree's trying to make a name for themselves, ( know it all's)! call them what you like for me, but it just gets worse & worse as time progresses & on that note that's more than enough a justifiable reason why i shall not be joining the BS.

The weekend is almost here & i cannot wait to get back out on the river bank, there have been some nice fish coming out of recent, even the carp are starting to show themselves in some stretches.
Trouble is where I've been fishing recently the fish aren't shoaled up any more, they just seem to be few & far between, but these downpoors have certainly helped put more life into the river, it's definitely done some justice somewhere. Anyway that's enough talk about it, I'm off down there.

Edit: well i was going down the river this afternoon, but got called out to do a job, never mind there is always sunday. S'ppose that's the beauty of being self employed.

Not been on for a while

Been busy of late, with now being self employed, still doing all the hard graft me'self though, sometimes you just cannot win.

Anyhow had to miss the BFAMW Trent fish in due to some hassle at home, damn it was really looking forward to that an'all, but still these things happen.
That reminds me, I must give Coops a bell!

Don't know what happed with this years world cup but jesus, it's been the most boring world cup, i've ever watched! & as for England well lets not go there.

Been doing some barbel bashing on the Trent last weekend, had one out at 6.5lb, in a late friday afternoon session,not a bad looking fish, looks like it had been on the bank before because there were a few scales missing & some red marks round it's mouth.

Also had another one at 11.5lbs, in another session on the sunday yes a new PB double, I could'nt beleive the size of it when it came upto the surface, the fight of this double was totally different compared to the smaller fish, these doubles don't scrap like splashers do, it just hugged the bottom, but didn't go very far off downstream like they normally do, looking at it this one's also been banked before aswell anyway here's a photo of her.

So far two sessions two fish & i'm well happy & i even left behind Ray's dub dodging club,  cannot wait to get down there again.

William.

Another bunch of tunes i've been listening to this afternoon...

I've started with this one....



& another by Culture Club...



This one from Gala...



Also this one from Ace of the Base...




& this one from Snap...




& last but not least this one from Manic Street Preachers...

Just a quicky

Well the new kitchen is almost complete & the bathrooms finished, no thanks ter them feckin yorkies, who are draggin it out to a fourth week like i said in a previous blog & i am glad their not doing me central heating, like i said a local firm is doing that for me & it'll be finished before the befamwee luvin.

Had a walk round a few local stretches of the trent last weekend during the snow melt & by christ was it rising & colouring up, not bad though looking at this picture.

As you can see in the next picture, it was rising pretty damn fast.

Haven't been down this weekend to see what the conditions are like but hope to in the week, so next weekends luvin doesn't look promising barbel wise! still you've got to be on the banks for a chance, it's no use moping over a bit of snowmelt floodwater.

On Saturday morning i received a text message, it went like this......

Geezahs due to the cold weather this luvin Mark Partridge came up with a spiffing idea, ala picket line brazier tokeep us warm and as a social point together with a huge tarp and tables that said we will need some wood to burn so pop what you can in your car to keep the cold out!

Thats alright reb but whose gonna bring a chainsaw, for there is plenty of trees, Trentside.


Shall see you guys next saturday morning.

Cheers,

William

Some more music that i've been listening to, recently....

To start with here's one dedicated to Befamwee's very own Mr Dubdodger......




& another dedicated ter Bob




& this one ter Jason Birdman  RE: Jase about the barbeque, well it goes a lil' sumfin like this........






& i'm justa chillin ter this one......





& last but not least, here's one dedicated ter the Befamwee fishin enjoy......

Abit of moaning about owt

What’s going on with the TV at moment? Mind yer we've being saying that fer years




I see Robson Green is back on the box with another series of what he calls Extreme Fishing, yeah right extreme fishing my arse. I watched the first programme & found it very boring, twas that boring you could actually see the dust settling on the TV screen "now that’s boring", I also watched the first five minutes of the second programme & ended up changing channels to watch a repeat of a programme called Hustle, now that was much more interesting at the very least & this week I intentionally forgot to watch extreme fishing & cannot for the life of me think why? Oh yeah I can! It’s very boring & I don't think I’ll bother watching the rest of the series.



So that sums that up about extreme fishing. Anyway speaking about the other programme I mentioned called Hustle, that was on bbc one I think on Monday night 01/02/2010, not the repeat that was on a different channel that I had mentioned above, that was on Thursday night, anyway Monday nights episode, what a programme to watch it had me laughing & that’s something which hasn’t happened for while with the numerous crap that’s aired on the box.



A nice sum of money £160.000, now that’s some hustling & the Twat asked for it, suppose you could say he got his come up pence’s, scamming poor folks with the likes of dodgy mobile phone deals, it was great to see the look on this idiot's face when he saw what he bought for that kind of money. OUCH one hundred & sixty grand for fly swatting equipment, classic.



Now what’s happening on the internet nowadays?



Barbel Wars a new website that’s well just takin the piss outta the Barbel Society at the moment & also Bobs blog has gone quite & someone even suggested Befamwee's gone dull! How very dare they.



Well it's just gone rather quite that’s all.



Twas out shopping the other day



On my travels out shopping the other day "yes well somebody’s gotta do it" I went to my local tackle shop & whilst I was talking to the shop owner this guy walked in the shop & joined in the conversation & after about 10 minutes this conversation turned into well a conversation about people making money out of fishing, so I thought to myself fuckinell here we go, anyway this guy turned round to myself in this conversation & said Bob Roberts for instance how much do you reckon he's worth? He’s gotta be worth a fair bit wouldn’t you think?



So I stood back & paused for moment, thinking about what I was gonna say to this guy & then it clicked, in the back of mind came this answer, so I sez to this guy, nah he's only a tenor, go compare that one & low & behold the guy who owns the shop turns round to myself laughing & sez you cunt & walks out through to the back of the shop shaking his head, & I just stood there PMSL, the other guy found it funny aswell, he even turned round to me afterwards & said I asked for that one didn’t I.



Then I ended up going back to the tackle shop later on that day because I’d forgot what I wanted, all over having a giraffe about Bob Roberts, Grrrrrrr.....



Text messages



I got this text message the other day, it went like this.....



Roses are red, nuts are brown, skirts go up, pants come down, body to body, skin to skin, when its stiff stick it in, it goes in dry, comes out wet, the longer its in, the stronger it gets, it comes out dripping and it starts to sag, its not what you think its a Tetley’s teabag.



















































Hehehe I got you thinkin dirty then didn’t i.LOL XXX





So I replied......















































































John yow cunt if that joke was ment for your missus at least send it to her!







& the reply came, oops sorry mate.







Yeah I should bloody well think so an all....







Its a good job I can see the funny side of things, eh.





Been reading the national newspapers recently



So Tiger Woods is still making headlines about his shagging around & just when I’m getting fed up of hearing about it, out of the woodwork comes John Terry, now with a lovely looking wife like that, who needs to play around?



Now John Terry of all people being the England team captain & all that should've known better than to shit on his best mate.



Some people just cannot help themselves, eh, when you've got a nice looking wife, kids, a big house & plenty of money coming in every week, what more could you ask for?



Well your best mate's missus aswell (pun intended).



It then turns out that a number of Chelsea's players have all had a dabble at Wayne Bridge's missus & rumour as it that there is Viagra in the water at Stamford Bridge, just goes to show anything can happen with a Russian mafia in charge.



How long will this scandal be in the papers? And what about another scandal then, Tony Blair on the Iraq inquiry, Quote: To take out Iraq was the right thing to do & after that I had plans to invade Iran.



Talk about guilty as charged, there’s an hanging offence if ever I saw one & will he get away with it, yer gawd damn right he will...



Pfffftttt.







Anyway that’s enough moaning now, lets move on to summat else....









Alright before I move on to summat else, Cappelo didn’t mess about sacking JT, so the England captain’s job is up for grabs. Then what about Ashley Cole? Well it just gets worse doesn’t it!



Summat else, but still moaning



Two weeks into the new kitchen & bathroom being done, that’s being pushed to a third week, could go to a fourth, feckin Yorkies I’ll never have em again. What happened to a 9 to 5 job these days, eh? These fecker’s only work from 9 till 12 Mon to Fri & they get paid a fulltime wage for it, okay the electricians & plasterers do work 9 to 5 but the fecking plumbers, tilers & chippies are a right bunch of idle barstewards.



I cannot get the stuff done that I want to get sorted because of em & feck knows what the painters & decorators are like, shall find out next week & has for gerrin the central heating done after they’re finished, well I ain’t havin no Yorkies oh no, that’s gonna be a local firm, at least then it won’t take half as long.



I found out the other day, the reason as to why this bunch of Yorkies ‘appen to be so idle thou knows, their only ex bloody coal miners, damn you, now there’s mistake I’ll never make again.



Has anybody ever had Yorkies do em a job & later questioned, em why the fuck it takes em so damn long ter finish the job?



Now when I mentioned ex bloody coal miners, these lot ain’t ex national coal board, no these feckers are ex UK coal & RJB miners & rumour has it these feckers are even worse than ex NCB’s.





Then an old saying sprung to my mind, this is what my great grandfather used to say when things didn’t go to plan….



Dear Mother it’s a bastard, & Dear Son so are you.



So if I never hear the words Donny, Sheffield, fuckin bastard Rotherham, leeds & cuntin Bradford for a fair while, I’ll be very happy.



Not havin much luck at the moment with me fishing two sessions out last weekend & blanked. It must be summat to do with these feckin Yorkies, I know.

Well enough of that me thinks, If you don't suceed the first time, try, try again.


Ok there is always this weekends lottery, thats if i can be arsed to gerra ticket.
& Its bloody freezing oop north, cannot wait for all this snow ter feck orf.

Moaning over.

What i've been upto recently & other stuff

Great to meet up with a few internet characters !


I met a few of the lads that post on a Website called Barbel Fishing Ain't My World down on the Trent at Hazleford a few weeks ago, The chuckle brothers "Carlos & Chunks" & also Coops, I had to laugh when i met these three because we looked like half the cast from auf wiedersehen pet.

Also we met Mike Joyce "Whiskerton" that day who came down to do a spot of trotting with his centrepin, It was a nice january morning with the sun shinning & i wish i'd brought me gear down now.

I still have'nt been out fishing myself yet due to sorting out the house which is having a new kitchen, bathroom, central heating & all the electrics done, also in the middle of doing the some of the same at my grandmothers house, thats just finishing off plastering & decorating the kitchen & also redecorating the bathroom & then finish off the garden.

Whats going wrong recently ?


Oh well plodding on regardless as you do, I cannot believe the recent january blog wars between Bob Roberts (2bobs) & Tony Rocca aka "Tony2canes" or better still he's known as Tony Bamboo to others. Ouch that was nasty even Conrad pulled the plug, Taking the pee out of someones wife assuming they've a disability is bang out of order, that went a little too far this time.


Been watching the footie recently, Wolves took a battering from Crystal Palace & got knocked out of the FA cup, as did Leeds against Spurs, I even at one point thought Leeds were going to make a comeback on Spurs again but this time it did'nt happen, damn theres goes twenty pound wasted in the bookies.


And then there was the darts, flaming hell Phil Taylor gerrin knocked out by a shackledragger (aussie) who then went on to beat Mervin King in the final of the Totesport.com World Professional Darts Championship, Ouch there goes another tenner in the bookies.

So i am thirty pound down in the bookies & contemplating having another dabble on Spurs next game, we shall see....


Computers, eh !

I have had a look at the new Windows 7 operating system, it's not really all that much different from Vista apart from the interface, taskbar & a few other minor details. So i decided to get Windows 7 Professional 64bit version & dual boot it on a partion of my master hard disk drive, Which has also got my other OS Vista Ultimate.


I was planning on building another pc but decided to dual boot instead, so i could see what all the rage was about Windows 7. So i'll build the next pc some time later on in the year & put my Windows 7 on that, which is going to have a quad core processor, amongst other gaming spec hardware. Upto this point in time i really cannot see the difference between Vista & 7, Ok 7 is all the things Vista should have been & the start up is faster as is the shutdown on Windows 7, compared to Vista, but thats not really a problem on Vista as there are numerous Websites on the Internet that specialize in tweaking Windows Operating Systems, which i'll mention in some future blogs.

Personally i prefer Vista over Win7, it's a shame Microsoft did'nt spend the time to put the new stuff from Win7 into Vista in the first place. Those of us that brought Vista have been ripped off by Microsoft by what they have done with Win7. Ok we are about to get ripped off again by Microsoft, who are now in the midst of building Windows 8.

Hang on Microsoft, I've only just got used to Vista which i find a doddle to use & slowly but surely getting used to Win7 & now you are bringing out a new OS ( Win8 ) jesus talk about needing to give us a chance, some of us have barely had time to breathe.

Alright i'm just moaning abit there ( honestly ), I can remember the time when i first started using computers, my first pc had Windows 95, the second had Win98 & the third had XP professional. I have never yet had the opportunity to have a go on a Mac yet but at some point in time, shall do.

William