Post by BOF on Jun 27, 2013 20:55:30 GMT
Just back from Burnham on Sea in Somerset, where I managed some rewarding evening sessions on Burnham's Apex lake, (see here binged.it/13bae4i ), whilst "Her Indoors" was watching her Soap's on TV. Costs are not great, around £5 per day or £15-ish for the week, if you are an old codger like me. The island swims produced many Bream for me, to around 3 1/2 - 4lb, and even the odd Common Carp all of which fell to either Sweetcorn or Bread in one form or another, (the latter is a must for every angler to take, as the place gets fed many times a day by the visitors kids chucking it in by the bagfull for the ducks).
The local anglers I met on the lake were very friendly and helpfull, as was the guy in the Tackle shop up near Breen, where we stayed, who kitted me out with a North Somerset club ticket, and some pellets which I used for groundbait, mixed into the mashed bread slop which was my staple feed.
BOF
PS On one of our "runs out" during the day, I managed an hour or two in the Fleet Air Arm Museum outside Yeovil. Here I managed to lay hands on a Concord, (002?, anyway one of the first of them), the fastest trans Atlantic airliner in the world. Followed shortly thereafter by doing the same with the fastest British made jet aeroplane. A World airspeed record holder from back in the 50's, the Fairey Aviation "Delta 2", which did over 1,500mph in level flight "back in the day".
So this year I have managed to bag two of the fastest aeroplanes in the world, and the the two fastest cars, having actually rubbed my grubby hand on both Thrust 2, and Thrust SSR, in an earlier trip to Coventry.
Wonder what I am going to spice up my next holiday?
The local anglers I met on the lake were very friendly and helpfull, as was the guy in the Tackle shop up near Breen, where we stayed, who kitted me out with a North Somerset club ticket, and some pellets which I used for groundbait, mixed into the mashed bread slop which was my staple feed.
BOF
PS On one of our "runs out" during the day, I managed an hour or two in the Fleet Air Arm Museum outside Yeovil. Here I managed to lay hands on a Concord, (002?, anyway one of the first of them), the fastest trans Atlantic airliner in the world. Followed shortly thereafter by doing the same with the fastest British made jet aeroplane. A World airspeed record holder from back in the 50's, the Fairey Aviation "Delta 2", which did over 1,500mph in level flight "back in the day".
So this year I have managed to bag two of the fastest aeroplanes in the world, and the the two fastest cars, having actually rubbed my grubby hand on both Thrust 2, and Thrust SSR, in an earlier trip to Coventry.
Wonder what I am going to spice up my next holiday?
