John Ellison

Don't buy a one piece suit. If it's starts off very cold, you can't take the top off when the sun comes through. Most of your bodyheat is lost through your feet and head. Moonboots are superb for keeping your feet warm, together with a fleecy hat, I don't think it really matters too much about the rest.

My Joan watches that bloody programme nine days a week. That's why I've cranked the computer up for, I can't stand it.

I have three old dustbins that I use. My worm stocks got severely depleted untill I started insisting that the potato peelings be saved for my bins. I find that there is nothing better than potato peelings and teabags for kick starting growth. Rabbit muck is also 'mega'.I looked yesterday, and there are thousands upon thousands of white immature worms.

They are a joy to use in calm weather. You see far more bites than on the quiver.

I have a copy of 'The Macdonald encyclopedia of Mushrooms and Toadstools' before me, which I bought for 50p on a second hans book stall. I would say with 90% certainty, that the mushrooms are; Panaeolina foenisecii. From Latin...'Dry hay' Edibility....Slightly hallucinogenic when ingested in large quantities. Habitat......Gregarious in grassy areas. Season.......Late summer to Autumn, common. Note.........This is one of several lawn mushrooms that come up after rains. Oddly enough, when I bought the book, two pages had been bookmarked, this being one of them. The other page, also had a hallucinogenic quality. Bloody hippies!

Hi all. I'm home from further surgery earlier than expected. It still wasn't very nice though . I didn't like the bit where the surgeon told me afterwards that I was 'High risk'. Oddly enough, A workmate told me his next door neighbour was a Theatre technician and was doing me. She spoke to me before I went under, and told her to take some Digi photo's so that my mate could show them round the canteen . I told my visitors if they wanted to know how my op' had gone, ask Bedford. I'm much more mobile than last time, but a little restricted due to that staple gun of theirs. Fishing will be out for a while again but, I'm in good spirits.

Brilliant

We are having problems in yorkshire at the moment with a new drug being hawked around. It's taken orally and goes by the name of E by gum.

It's absolutely true. I tend to listen to my football on either Radio 5 live or Radio Sheffield. I think 5 live's the favorite.

I'm afraid I shall be going into hospital for surgery again on September 29th. I had a cancerous kidney removed in February, recovered from that, then went on a clinical trial for 8 weeks. My post trial scan was not good. A re-occurrance was found at the site of the surgery. I saw my consultant two weeks ago. He was not as perturbed as I was. Wether that is a good sign or bad, I dare not go there. Wether I can liken it to 'having had the boiler taken out, and now, taking another piece of pipe out' is the most simplistic way in which I imagine it, I'll no doubt find out more when I come round. Thankfully, as serious as it undoubtedly is, I have never been in any kind of pain. All that will change if matters worsen. If I am fortunate enough to overcome this, I shall be forever grateful to the part AN members have played in my recouperation.

A radio commentator was ripping into Neil Warnock, Sheffield United's manager once, how he must have noticed his name also spelt Colin W****r. He was not a happy bunny.

It's one of Bet Lynch's missing ear rings

When I got slaughtered at chess the other day, we'd begun the day at Saltaire beer festival. The chess hustler's wife, declared that all the decent stuff had gone by the time we got there. The very first barrel I clapped eyes on was Ossett brewery's 'Hercules'. We've been searching for that one for three years. Our regular landlady told us it must have been a special, the type they do for festivals such as this. Well, it was 6% and the last time we had it, My Joan, landed flat on her Arsenal, on the bus on the way home. The driver asked if she was ok. I told him, that after what we'd been drinking, it was a wonder I was not on the floor as well. Superb!

I hate to drag this on a bit, but how can anybody seriously think that the fish is a roach. When was the last time you caught a roach with a tail that colour. The Ide were put in the Calder something like 30 years ago. I have weighed one in Wakefield that went three pounds. We catch them pretty regular here. They tend to take up station, higher in the water than roach. Fishing the waggler, for instance, it's a safe bet, that if you get a savage take on the drop, it will be an Ide. And they put up quite a scrap.

I know what you mean. I have played two game already and got beaten easily. That's the site that he uses. I don't know. The company I keep

I was on an 'ale trail' with friends, when we stumbled upon a pub that had a chessboard with the pieces in place. "Do you play chess" said a mate. I told him I hadn't played for 20 years. "Neither have I" said he. So we played a game which I eventually lost. Then he said, " I enjoyed that, it's the first time I've played anyone for years. I usually play the computer" :mad: . I certainly got sucked in there. If anyone knows of a site where I can polish up a little, I'd appreciate it.

Umm, I was going to tell you about my 9 lbs 1 ozs boy, but I'm not now

Yes! Chub coloured fins, yet the mouth is more papery as opposed to the rubberlips of the chub.

Leeds and District Amalgamated Society of Angler's used to have a junior section. Ask in any of the shops and they should put you right.

I have just realised my avatar hardly befits the occasion. Please accept my apologies. In respect for Alan's memory, it's altered.

It's rare for me to be stuck for words. I just don't know what to say. When I joined AN Alan was having treatment then. I guess I missed him at his best. R.I.P.

John Wayne says to the Indian "What's the medicine for Indian?" For cough.

That manager has to go. After Tony Blair, he's the only other face I see on the tele' who has me reaching for the off button. They have a lot in common. They are so bloody smug, and don't have a clue what they're doing half the time.

It's 40 years ago, that a pal and I, hired a cruiser and a rowboat from Beccles. We got to Hickling and dropped anchor in the middle of the broad. We took off in the rowboat to bait up a likely looking swim to fish through the night. While we were packing sandwiches for our trip, a mist dropped down. We had a hell of a time locating the pre-baited site. We left a light on in the cruiser, so that we'd be able to find it. When we got back, there were thousands of midges or whatever all over the boat Being Yorkies, water to us, is for swimming in, as well as fishing in. I was having a pleasant little swim when I espied something floating towards me resembling a 'Picnic bar' That was the end of my swimmings sessions