I was reminded of these I have owned for some years now when I contributed to a recent post about "Fishing shop memories"
Looking at these wonderfully illustrated little books by Bernard Venables , brings it home just how much we have to thank Bernard for...opening the pages we are instantly taken to another world , a place of wonderfull dreams indeed ..what memories!
Is it a sin to covert thy neighbours Venables?.....
Marc. (Prince of Durham)
“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...”
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
Wandler wrote:I don't know about coveting your neighbour's venables but it is certainly a sin to covet their ox or their ass!
Don't worry Micky, I'm only after your Venables...
Bernard's artwork is so alive. It's not high life like but it's so much the back drop for all fishing.
Marc. (Prince of Durham)
“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...”
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers,” Herbert Hoover.
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Very nice micky, each one a snapshot into a special world.
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
Lovely collection, Sir. Odd how I suddenly feel very old ... and very young at the same time !
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
hmmm