Under the current circumstances I am fully aware that my daily routine will be firmly based in, and around, the bungalow. My Bruno time, as is my natural history fix, spent out in the garden. I'd already given up on worrying about the garden this year, yet thanks to Bev's daughter, Debbie, coming around to sit with her mum for a couple of hours, yesterday, I was able to grab the chance to take a drive across to the Elham Valley Garden Centre in order to purchase the plants required to ensure that the wall mounted and hanging baskets would be presentable? With time on my side, I can now start to think about getting the odd planter sorted out, thus giving me a distraction from the reality of everyday life. I do have one planter already well prepared, this being the one right outside my study doorway which contains those most important of plants, Nicotiana - Tobacco Plants, the Convolvulus Hawk-moth magnet during late-Summer/early-Autumn period.
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| A Convolvulus Hawk-moth feeding on Nicotiana last September |
I did receive a nice phone call from Benno yesterday as he excitedly relayed the news of another PB Tench from the "un-named" syndicate venue. A subsequent exchange, later in the evening, has resulted in a nice twist. Because there is absolutely no way I'll be getting out with the fishing kit, it seemed only right that Benno uses my pair of Duncan Kay 1lbs 10oz t/c Carp rods for his Tench project, just as I had done on Wilstone back in the 1980's during my quest for a "double". I failed to achieve that particular target, but would love for Benno to experience the thrills of playing a fiesty Tench on exactly the same rods which have been part of my own speccy hunting journey since 1983!
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| 7lbs 14oz - absolutely magnificent, but not on a Duncan Kay! |
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