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You'll be lucky. That post was eight years old and Stalker hasn't been seen round these parts for three years!

Anyone know why multiples of six (or twelve) came to be considered the optimum unit of measurement for eggs? They use it in the US as well, I believe, as well as in mainland Europe. How about Asia, I wonder?

The BBC were hardly obliged to show it though, were they?

R4,000/€107.35/$129.27 (So about ninety quid)

Are they being made in the UK though? All Zen Master said was that he'd "recently started producing" reels.

He didn't actually say that, or even anything like it though. That phrase was from an independent report commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Chesters’ quote appears to have come from a site which was talking about that report. The sentence was, however, chopped off halfway through and originally said: The 78-page report, "Childhood Wellbeing", by Counterpoint Research prepared for "Children's Secretary", Ed Balls stated: "The general perception among parents was that it was no longer acceptable to be proud to be English." etc

I don't think you can get an Edward Barder rod of any sort for less than a grand. And his three-piece fly rods are £1,800 each.

You'll need a phono preamp if you want to plug your turntable into your soundcard. Assuming you're not too much of an audiophile, the Maplin cheapie will probably do a good enough job and will probably contain the same generic circuitry as most things sold as USB turntables.

Hardy have made a great many rods and reels over the 140-odd years they've been in business. I think he's going to have to be a bit more specific if he wants any sort of sensible answer to his question.

Actually, is (or was) he not secretary of Haltwhistle AC, who'd actually be issuing those day tickets? While we're waiting for Phil to show up, I'd also recommend Brampton AA, who are only a few miles down the road and who have some cracking wild brownie and grayling fishing on the Gelt and the Irthing for not very much money at all.

Also, checking the date on posts before replying is not a bad idea either.

Yes. The trout season’s open, as are the sea trout and salmon seasons, although you’re not allowed to take any fish at this stage in the season. (I know that’s definitely the case with salmon, at least.) Apart from the odd dace, I’m not sure there are any coarse fish in the South Tyne though. That all depends on who you’re buying the ticket from. Some clubs or land-owners may designate their water fly-only, or they may have restrictions at certain times of the year. The only one that I know is a regional byelaw up here is that you can’t bait fish for salmon until 17 June, so it’s fly and lure only before that date. I should imagine that it’s Haltwhistle AC who’ll be issuing your ticket and luckily, the club secretary is a member here, so I’m sure he’d be able to clarify exactly what the rules are on the day ticket stretch of the river. I wouldn’t go as far as saying you were wasting your time. I would suggest that perhaps you might be jumping in at the deep end though. For your first time out, it’s definitely worth booking a lesson with a local instructor, otherwise I suspect you’d find the whole experience so frustrating it would probably be your last time out. It’s also good to have someone experienced around the first time you have to unhook a fish too, as proper fish handling is an increasingly important part of fishing today, now we don’t just automatically whack everything we catch on the head and hoik it in the creel! If you’re after a salmon for the barbie, you’re going to have to stick to the supermarkets at this time of year! You really don’t have to be very good to have fun. If you did, I wouldn’t enjoy myself half as much as I do!

They're about £400, I believe. Handmade to order and universally acknowledged as one of the very best vices that money can buy. The big money they fetch when they turn up on eBay probably also reflects the fact that that's the only way of buying them without having to sit on a waiting list for six months.

Heard my first chiff-chaff of the year yesterday and saw two hares crashing around a field. Big flocks of curlews beginning to turn up too, and plenty of lapwings doing that low twisty flying thing!

I find the thought of all that data on just one drive a bit scary.

Youtube Video ->Original Video

Only if you let them. You can hide everything from public view if you want.

If you're putting them on any sort of drive, whether it's your own PC's hard drive or any sort of external drive, then expect it to fail at some point. It may be later or it may be sooner, but it will die eventually. So if your pictures are really important, back them up in as many places and in as many different ways as you can be bothered. Personally, I'd probably mainly rely on one of the big online image hosts like Flickr or Picasa or Photobucket as my main storage. Basically, these are companies that do data storage on a grand scale and will have security and back-up facilities way in excess of anything you could ever dream of at home. It'll be a bit of a pain uploading everything to start with, but a couple of nights of your computer chugging away uploading should do the trick. Well, how big are the photos?

I've seen people explain how to do this countless times now and have never quite got it, but now having seen this, all of a sudden the penny has dropped… Many thanks for this one!

That's the second time in the last few days that I've read a story about landing on Rockall. (Typical, eh? You wait ages for one and then two come along together!) www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/feb/28/charles-veley-most-travelled-person?page=all It sounds a bit terrifying to me.

I don't know anything about the club or the waters, but that picture has quite clearly been stretched, not scaled proportionately, which is why it look more like an eel than a tinca! (That certainly doesn't account for the crinkle-cut fins though.)

I see the ground is already being prepared for the next scapegoat (TBA) story: "In 10 or 15 years’ time we may see a new threat emerge"

http://biohorizons.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/143.full

I'm not sure he hasn't got a point though.