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Our supermarkets have been (and still are) selling low cost wines/alcohol at stupid low prices anyway. When you go into most supermarkets you are literately swamped with cheap cut priced wines; so any price increase would be a good thing in my view. (Head down and wait for the rockets ) Keith

Hi and welcome to the forum Imogen. Unfortunately I’ve never fished the river Jubilee at all, and I last fished the Thames quite a while ago so can’t be of much help to you; however it sounds like you are approaching it OK. Try asking for info on the FishingMagic.com and MaggotDrowning.com sites as they both have hundreds of anglers that regularly post on those forums. Also this link might help you as it covers the river Jubilee Marsh Lane area. Hope it helps https://allaboutangling.net/berkshire/river-thames-berkshire/river-thames-jubilee-river/ This forum (anglersnet) has some really good anglers on it; who fish for Barbel, Chub and Carp etc. but unfortunately not as many anglers as it used to have; so you might have to wait quite a time for a reply to your query.

A few reasons why Brexit wasn’t such a bad thing for the UK??? (Source was ‘The Office for National Statistics’) NB: The Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament

UFO’s When I was serving as a Meteorologist in the fleet air arm based at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall we had a Cloud Base Measurer which we would shine onto the base of the clouds at night to measure the cloud bases. Whenever we used it we’d receive several calls from the public reporting strange UFOs hovering over the airfield and surrounding countryside and then shooting off at a tremendous speed. Which always made us smile. Keith

A local pub/restaurant near me was designed with a car sticking out of its window on purpose just for effect. Keith

Nice fishing Ian It’s nice being able to fish a river or stream and be fairly alone especially at the start of the season. I myself am leaving the rivers and streams alone for the first two or three weeks of the season especially if it’s going to be hot and the water levels are quite low. I spent last week on a holiday in NorthWest Wales so didn’t get any fishing in however the next few days we will be at our holiday static so if it is not too hot I might get a few hours chasing small Carp in the on-site pond. Keith

It’ll be nice to get a new face on the forum

Why anyone would rather use FB etc than a propper angling forum like this one beats me too Ian. NB: Thanks for helping to sort my problem with the forum Ian As you can see Elton has sorted it now. Keith

Hooray! It works fine now, I can now create and answer posts. Thank you for sorting my problem Elton; and also thanks to Ian for letting Elton know Keith

Tigger also posted on Maggotdrowning.com yesterday. Keith

I used to fish in all weathers even at night in freezing cold weather huddled up under a brollie or a thin bivvie however now I’m 73 and my bones now seize up in low temperatures I don’t fish in the real cold weather anymore; but if the temp is circa 10 deg C or above then I might still go piking in a sheltered bay or go Chub & Barbel Fishing on my local stream, but I’ll be wearing my electric waistcoat which is battery heated, plus my neoprene fishing gloves and/or a warm hooded fishing jacket over my waistcoat. When I used to regularly fish in ice cold weather I occasionally used to wear artificial fur lined long johns under my trousers which I was issued with from where I worked; and some anglers I knew wore a pair of women’s tights under their jeans to keep them warm (and prayed that they weren’t involved in a car accident ) When I served in the RN we got issued with inflatable gloves when we were at sea in the Artic and Antarctic areas. Keith

Martin; maybe it’s the direction of the tufts on your carpet rather than your rug? If it’s a fitted carpet then you may be stuck with it. Whatever it is it is puzzling. Our fireside rug gets accidentally moved and creased up by our feet when we sit on the sofa Keith

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I don’t know about spiriting Lord Lucan out of the country but Graham Hills grave is beneath a local kids sandpit after someone bought the church and part of the graveyard to turn into their family home a few years ago. NB: Graham Hill lived just up the road from where we live. We found it after searching and setting clues for a local school teachers Treasure hunt a few years ago, and were shown it by the now owners of the converted church. Keith

Happy new year Keith

Happy new year Keith

Hi and welcome to the forum Keith

That is a sad tale

Welcome back Brian Keith

Before I changed branches to a Naval Meteorologist and Oceanographer I was previously a naval photographer back in the early 70s and covering the Queens arrival after sailing into Portsmouth on the Royal Yacht; and I got told off after flashing a Flash on my camera at the Queen; camera flashes were one of her dislikes but I didn’t realise. If I had known I would have not used the flash. However; I got some great shots of the Queen and her entourage which appeared in the Navy News and also in the Daily Mirror though and I got some good complements from my PR officer. Being a Naval Photographer I was free to move around fairly freely whereas the civilian photographers had to all keep behind their barriers. Keith

I live in Hertfordshire and apart from on crowded waters where you could cause annoyance if your bait floats into someone else's swim; Ive regularly used floating crust on almost all of the 'non' commercial waters that I fish in the Herts and Beds areas without any problems, as long as its not in a match or causing problems with other Anglers on the day; or its against fishery rules which isn't that common. Occasionally on shallowish waters ;of about 7ft or less; when I don't want my bait drifting away into another person's swim I use an anchored floating crust. I have often made 'boilee cake' from a boilee mix with extra eggs added plus a pinch of baking powder and putting the sloppy mix into the oven until it is a cake like bait that floats well and is more resilient and stays on the hook a lot longer than bread. NB: I also add flavours and colouring to my boily cake before baking too. Keith

I thought that I hadn’t ever caught an IDE, however now I realise that IDE is just another name for Orfe and I used to catch them quite a lot back in the 90s although the ones we caught back then were Golden Orfe. Keith

On Friday we had a few hours in the evening (approx 5:30pm till 9pm) with my son on our clubs remote estate lake and we found that we had the lake all to ourselves; although another member did turn up at around 8pm to fish through the night. We surmised that the sweltering heat weve been having had probably put the fish off feeding a bit. My son Stuart had two mirror Carp; an 11lb plus one and a 16lb plus one; and I had one mirror Carp although it was a beauty of 21½lb so I was well satisfied. Keith

I don’t use a fishing brolly very much these days and I much prefer to wear waterproofs instead of hunkering under a brolly; however I do own two 50” brollies and a smaller 45” one; and to make them easier to use on hard banks I bought some solid brolly poles which have screw threaded points and are quite light which replace the normal pointed shafts of my normal brollies. I now just screw the pointed ‘screw end’ into the ground (with the help of a small removable bar which comes with the threaded pole) which is a lot easier to do than pushing in a standard brollie point into hard ground and also a lot quieter and less fish scaring than using a noisy mallet. I also have a brollie gadget on my match box which I can fix my smaller brollie into and which I occasionally use if I am fishing in a match (which isn’t very often these days). Keith

I have a pair of Fox ‘rover’ digital scales which are fine but I gave them to my son and much prefer to use my Avon Dial scales as I dont like to rely on batteries. Sure enough the following year my son had to ask me for my Dial scales because his battery had failed and he had not put any spares into his tacklebox. My last Avon Dial scales had been weighing very accurately for around 30 years before I needed to replace them with some replacement Avon Dial scales last year. There is nothing wrong with digital scales however except for the fact that you do need to check batteries every now and then and keep some ‘in date’ spare batteries (nb: even unused spare batteries have a life span so can also run low) Keith