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Thank you Chesters. As you probably realize, this is all in anticipation of getting Vagabond down to the water......
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The new on-line .gov.uk web site is a big improvement on the Post Office system Just bought licences for three of the family including myself. Much more straightforward to use. Had prompt acknowledgements by email and text
with licence numbers which as has been said here "Is all you need". No mention at all that plastic licences will arrive .........
Has anyone received their plastic licence yet?
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Err....what picture ?
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Sorry can't upload even a small photo. Just get an error message. You will have to imagine, a bearded gentleman, quietly fishing from a narrow boat in a Thames Lock on a warm sunny evening. No other people, no fish. All's peace and tranquillity..........
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.............. but still a nice week. How could it not be with good company, mums cooking, glasses of vino and fishing at your door.
This was a splendid exploration of an area new to me. It was a lot less busy on the river than I expected. I think this photo taken at this Thames weir pool sums it up!
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Thanks chaps for all your suggestions. In spite of Sony claiming that my particular camcorder is compatible with Windows 10, and me having Sony's latest software, there is no recognition via the USB cable.
Number 1 grandson has now visited and agrees my diagnosis, but he did point out a provision under the camcorder to insert a memory card, which I hadn't seen. This facility has resolved the problem. The files have been dubbed onto the card from the cameras hard drive and then the card slotted into my pc for transfer.
Seems a very clumsy fix, but it works!!
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Thanks Newt,
Option 2 is possible as I do have my old pc with Windows XP languishing under the desk. Would just need to connect everything to it again. I do want to edit the video on my new pc, though, as it is much faster and has plenty capacity, so will wait for Option 3 which is a phone call this afternoon from a very technical grandson who assures me he will talk me through the issue.
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The Sony site gives a long list of Camcorders that are compatible with Windows 10. All defined by their model code number. The only similar code to mine has an extra E ie DCR-SR58E. Is this telling me that DC-SR58 is not compatible?
I am using the latest version of Sony software which just keeps telling me to "connect a camera". I have tried the FAQs on the Sony site which suggests using a different USB port and connecting the camera before and after switching on both the pc and the camera. My pc knows that a camera has been attached because my security software asks if I want to Scan it.
I tried Sony's technical helpline some weeks ago and was told that Sony were still working on Windows 10 compatability so I should ensure that I download each latest version which I have done.
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Hi
I have been baffled for weeks by the inability of my recently installed Windows 10 to "see" the Sony Camcorder (DCR-SR58) that is connected to my PC. This wasn't a problem with Windows XP. The Camcorder was one of the Devices listed when I wanted to Import files to my PC.
My husband, Vagabond, suggested that there would be technical expertise on Anglers net that would tell me what I need to do to put this right.
I would be really grateful for some direction! Thanks
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Congrats on a fine fish Norma!
And many happy returns Vagabond
Thanks chaps. I know I sit at the feet of the MasterOnly 81 Dave..."I thought you where older LOL"....only pullin your leg bud. A bit late but all the best, oh and well done Norma
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Hi chaps
Looking forward to fishing with you on Wednesday. I thought that I had better post so that I make my claim as a contender for the trophy.
Dave (Vagabond) is busy with preparing the tackle. My role is just food, transport, campsite, boatman........ We will be travelling up to Rutland on Tuesday so will check Tuesday morning that we are not cancelled at that point. If we can't get out on Wednesday we can always go birding!
Norma
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Great stuff Dave but it doesn't seem right that your not posting about fishing in foreign climbs catching exotic species and risking life and limb doing it....indiana Dave
Pleased that you liked the barbel, but it was me that risked life and limb descending with the help of a rope down a 12 ft bank to net the barbel and then release it.
Vagabond just watched and gave advice - he believes wives should catch and land their own fish. -
Have you considerered Dracunculus medinensis?
Ooooo, Having read up on that one, I won't grumble about the cost and inconvenience of using bottled water, ever again.
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.....collecting species of tropical parasite........
Well, Dermatobia hominis is a new species for the family list... but its quite a long list already:
Leeches from Australia, Malaysia, Madagascar and Assam
Ticks from Ireland, Australia and Colorado
Sand flies from Australia
Chiggers from Venezuela, Belize, Costa Rica
Blood sucking mosquitos almost everywhere south of Dover and of course, midges anywhere to the north
I often feel that we must be received by the wildlife in foreign parts like an exotic take-away being delivered to your swim at Wingham.
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My kids like making water slides down grans steep lawn using a plastic builders sheet and a hose pipe, but I'm hoping junior don't see this youtube clip. The mans a nutter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibjrXnHVvw...ayer_detailpage
Perhaps he won't, but his gran has....
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What a smasher.
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Super. well done.
and well done to Tigger for getting you there.
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Turned out not to be a bad move as i caught 3 nice chub and a wee little brownie.
This was the best chub, 5lb 5oz.
Thats a smart chub. Well done
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Hey
No one has mentioned my news for the weekend
Caught a Shanny from the Stone Pier at Lochaline......makes it 50 UK saltwater species to date for me
Got the malt out, drunk to Norrie's skate, Jabee's shanny, Davy's skill, today's crayfish, a golden orfe and a three pound perch caught by Dave this morning. Gosh the bottles going down.
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Blinking heck, Norrie. Thats some fish! Its seriously off the top of the chart we use. Well done, that man.
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Cheers, guys. Looks like I need to make a trip back to the garden centre
The herbs I have so far are:
Basil, Oregano, Sage, Common Thyme, Mint, Lemon Thyme, Barbecue Rosemary and Italian Parsley.
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Brilliant Elton, herbs are a great way to add interest and variety to quite simple cooking. You want to aim to have a healthy supply at most times of the year but its not easy to keep them all going all year.
Oegano, Sage, Mint and Rosemary can be established outdoors in a border or in pots of John Innes no. 3 or any good compost sold for patio pots.
Thyme needs a more limey soil so add some garden lime or crushed chalk or crushed shells to the soil or compost.
Parsley goes to seed in its second summer, so you need to resow or buy new plants each year. If you give the soil a good handful of something rich like blood, fish and bone or just a spadeful of good manure you can get a really vigorous clump of parsley by late summer which will last right through to next spring (unless you eat it all!)
I think basil does best on the kitchen window sill. British summers (like this one!) are just not good enough for this Mediterranean plant. It grows quickly and only lasts about three months so use it and get another pot for later in the year or sow new seeds about now to ensure a good supply into late summer.
After the first few months all herbs will benefit from some liquid feed every fortnight or so.
I would like to hear of anyone's recommendations for combinations of herbs with fish . We like a tomato and onion sauce with lots of basil over cod or haddock. Thornback wings fried in butter with lots of chopped parsley added to the pan just before serving.
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the Avon s s s is on offer on there web site.
Great, thanks for that info. I have just ordered it.
I will give both the Avon product and the Neem oil a good trial in Scotland next month.
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Jungle Formula is the best by far in my opinion
This has been a useful read. Only the "Heavy duty" Jungle formula contains DEET. The standard formula is DEET free. Certainly in mosquito country we find we need DEET. However DEET has a couple of side effects I can do without. It can irritate skin and also dissolve plastic. I agree about covering up as much as possible.
Thanks for the info about the Avon Spray and Neem. I will give anything a go. We are planning a trip to the West Coast of Scotland next month so need to have a good stock of repellents for those hungry midges.
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After the excitement of mahseer fishing on the Cauvery, we left Bangalore and travelled via Delhi to join with a small group of other birders for a couple of weeks exploring parts of the far north east of India : mainly in National Parks in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam (where the tea comes from) and Meghalaya. If you want to find them on a map they are tucked away in that part of India, east of Bangladesh and close to the borders with Bhutan, China and Burma. Our party comprised: a Canadian, a Belgian, two French and ourselves led by Craig Robson, a finder of birds par excellence whose ears were amazingly tuned to every squeak and rustle from the forest and whose eyes could spot and distinguish dots in the distance and see through trees! Most of the photos shown below were taken by Craig.
One twelfth of the world's population lives on the Gangetic Plain. We were in the valley of the Brahmaputra River, which flows into the Ganges before their combined waters flow out into the Bay of Bengal. The busy traffic in the city of Bangalore had been a culture shock on our arrival there two weeks before, but the vehicles, people and animals on the roads in the many smaller towns and villages we travelled through in the north-east of India were surreal. No pavements or edge to roads. Bicycle-drawn rickshaws and three-wheeler taxis transporting whole families on the rear seat, mopeds carrying three passengers and huge bales of animal fodder, ancient long-distance buses packed to capacity inside and with luggage and passengers on top and enormous timber-laden twenty-wheelers all with horns blaring. Interweaving between it all: ladies in bright saris with large water pots on their heads, children in immaculate school uniforms, soldiers carrying rifles, hand carts laden with bamboo scaffolding eased along by six dhoti-wearing runners, scrawny cows, bleating goats, scavenging dogs and pecking chickens. In our comfortable Ta-Ta off-road vehicles we felt distanced from the melee, but had some scary moments when closing our eyes was the only way to survive the next near miss.
In great contrast the National Parks were havens of nature so lush and prolific that the travels outside were very soon forgotten. Our first week was spent in Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradash .
Photo of the Guest House on the Noa Dihing River
After a couple of nights in the guest house on the Noah Dihing River we crossed the river by punt, waded a smaller river and trekked into the forested hills for five days. Our camp was transported by a dozen bearers, and three elephants with mahouts. A very small baby elephant trotted in between two of the larger beasts nervously avoiding any close encounter with the foreign, telescope-carrying visitors.
Photo of the White-bellied heron
The sighting of the extremely rare White-bellied Heron on the big river was an unexpected bonus resulting from a rain-delayed start to the trek. Vagabond tried long and hard to identify the fish it stalked, caught and swallowed for its breakfast.
The rain cleared, the sun shone, the forest steamed and leeches emerged. They reared up from the leaf litter sensing their way to any nearby boot. Over the next few days our party provided a hefty boost of human blood to the local leech biomass. We were grateful for an issue of leech-socks which were extremely effective in protecting legs and ankles but didn't entirely stop the bloodsuckers gaining access via waistbands and zip-ends.
A very common bird of this part of the forest was the Blue-throated Flycatcher, a newly arrived summer visitor busy establishing breeding territories by singing from perches in the bamboo.
Photo of Blue-chinned Flycatcher
The forest was well populated with gibbons whose haunting cries rang out soon after dawn each morning, macaques, flying foxes and a variety of squirrels all seen clambering and swinging their way through the canopy. Some beautiful butterflies provided distraction to photographers.
Photos of Common Tinsel
and Forest Quaker Butterflies
Pink and white epiphytic orchids grew from mossy branches
Photo of epiphyte
After the lush forest of Namdapha we travelled to Tinsukia, a busy town set in the oldest oil field in India. In a strange forest that had grown up around the derelict rigs of the Digboi oil-field we watched laughing-thrushes, drongos and sunbirds. In a beautiful lily-strewn lake amongst the trees local men were netting small fish, in competion with Little Egrets and Indian Pond Herons.
A day in a motorised punt on the Brahmaputra took us through the Dibru Saikwoha National Park. Ganges dolphins swam and leapt alongside us but proved impossible to photograph. The wetland birds were a mix of new and familiar species: parrotbills, prinias and babblers amidst redshanks, snipe and a Little Ringed Plover with chicks. It was a Sunday and local visitors to the national park included the Chief of Police and an entourage of armed guards and wives and daughters. After lunch whilst several of our party took a short siesta in the daba where we had eaten, I was approached by a charming daughter of the family wh wanted to practice her English. We engaged in a conversation which seriously taxed my knowledge of current British pop bands. I posed amongst the ladies for photographs taken on their mobile phones and was questioned about life in England. I may have found the place very strange but I suppose I was the real oddity.
We rode in open topped jeeps for four days in Kaziranga National Park. The world famous tiger reserve did not provide any sightings of the tiger but splendid views of the Indian Horned Rhino in its most populated stronghold, herds of Swamp Deer, families of wild Asian Elephant and Wild Boar with a large litter of piglets. This was the only place we saw vultures on the trip: a Slender billed Vulture on a nest and Himalayan Griffons circling high on thermals.
The final few days were spent in the hills above the town of Shillong and driving up to the waterfalls at Cherrapunjee, the "wettest place on planet Earth" – 17ft of rain per year, but only a few drops while we were there. A Brown Bush Warbler stole the show amongst a strange moorland landscape scattered with open cast coal workings and small chapels. Pretty miniature gentians littered the grassland
Photo of Brown Bush Warbler
Photo of Himalayan Gentian
Three hundred and ninety three species of birds were recorded during the trip by our group. One hundred and thirty were new birds for us. We talked with one of our Indian drivers about the mahseer of the Brahmaputra. We heard of plans to encourage the tourism prospects of the region with guided fishing and staying in tea-garden residences. Maybe another trip……..
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.... presumably you are talking of dolphin fish? I have heard that they are top eating, but I heve never tried it - or even caught one for that matter. Sounds like I had better try and get myself one.
(Before anyone starts screaming, dolphin fish are not dolphins or any other type of mammal)
Hi chevin
Its dorado you should try if you get chance to fish in the tropics again. You might know it as mahi mahi. It must be available in Perth even if its not "fresh in today". Its just as good as the Dhu fish we shared last time we were with you.
Happy New Year to yourself and your good lady.
Vagabond
in Coarse Fishing
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So sad to report that my beloved Dave, known to you as Vagabond has died. He left to fish another world on 3rd May. I'm thinking he is out there hunting that 2lb roach. He enjoyed the friendships he made through Anglers Net and was still reading your posts until very recently. We often remembered the Anglers Net gatherings at Wingham and the bass fishing trips out of Lymington and Weymouth.
My best wishes to you all and thank you for giving Dave so much entertainment with your many posts.