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Happy birthday to Izaak Walton

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Did you realise that on this day 420 years ago Izaak Walton was born, happy birthday Izaak.

I fear a toast is called for tonight. :Hat:
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Happy birthday Izaak :Hat:
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Happy Birthday Izaak. :Hat:

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

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A glass will be raised this evening.
"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.

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A life worthy of celebration, I'll toast Isaak's memory tonight with an ale or two and a verse from The Compleat Angler:-

"When we please to walk abroad
For our recreation,
In the fields is our abode,
Full of delectation:
Where in a Brook
with a hook,
or a Lake
fish we take,
there we sit
for a bit,
till we fish intangle."


(taken from the Gutenberg online reproduction)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9198/9198-h/9198-h.htm

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Three cheers for Isaak...

Hip Hip..Hooray
Hip Hip..Hooray
Hip Hip..Hooray :Hat:
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An ale will be raised to the man tonight.

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A glass of wine or two to toast him tonight
There is no peace on earth like the peace of fishing in the early mornings

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I raised one too many ales last night, I shall celebrate by going for a walk with a copy of The Compleat Angler and sit under a tree by the river and read a passage or two. Happy Birthday Izaak.

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I shall raise a glass when I return home from work tonight... :Hat: :Thumb:
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home

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