I had a great day - all of my money has gone and almost nothing to show for it!
Actually, that could do with some explaining.
Mrs. B. Wanted to buy me an Altex no.1 to go with my Wanless, as a Christmas gift (officially I don’t actually know for sure what it is - it’s a surprise!) but the one we found was far nicer than we had anticipated, and more costly too, so my meagre cash pot was plundered to make up the difference.
The I renewed my Fallons subs, and bought an issue I was missing, a couple of floats from LuckLuca and a reel-bag, destined to become two-reel-bags from Wagtail.
I did have, at this point, plenty of cash left. More of that later.
Before then, the reel bag - I wanted to give that Altex (or whatever it may be) a nice place to live, and this stood out on Alex’s stall
When we got home, Mrs. B needed to retire to her sewing room to wash the fishing out of her head, so I followed and a few minutes work with her trusty unpicker
And I had two reel bags!
One for the Altex (or whatever!) and the other for my Mitchell 308. Marvellous.
Finally, I was just congratulating myself on only spending a tiny amount of cash when I happened upon Andrew J Davis and his stall of far too many temptations.
I bought, almost immediately a well-restored Hardy Palakona which will be my heavy-ledger rod, for a bargain-tastic price and once more congratulated myself upon keeping most of my money in my pocket.
A five minute conversation with the man and my wife proved my downfall. It’s a significant birthday for me next year and I’d planned a significant rod purchase to celebrate. I shan’t reveal the outcome of our conversation, but let’s just say that most of my cash reserve now resides with Mr. Davis and I have a treat to look forward to next year.
In the closed season!
Still, at some point I should get my money back as it’s a gift from Mrs. B for my birthday.