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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2022 21:22:56 GMT 1
My grandson has just had a fishing rod taken by a swan. After an initial struggle, the big woose was too scared to fight the swan to get it back and off it went. The one that got away, with a twist.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 9:19:52 GMT 1
About 60 years ago I was canoeing on a small river when suddenly my right paddle stopped abruptly. On finally getting it up so that I could see the problem there was a large pike biting it. Blooming thing took some persuading to let go!
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Post by annabellespapa on Aug 10, 2022 9:37:49 GMT 1
My grandson has just had a fishing rod taken by a swan. After an initial struggle, the big woose was too scared to fight the swan to get it back and off it went. The one that got away, with a twist. I would not take on a swan either, as a boy we had three geese on our farm and it was my job to tend to them, they obviously liked me as if anything came near me, dog, fox, chickens, people ect... they would form as a group and attack them or it. Cheaper and safer in the long run to buy a new fishing rod.
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Post by Nifty on Aug 10, 2022 10:22:51 GMT 1
I grew up in my grandfather’s house where there was a stuffed pike in a case upon the wall of one of the rooms. I was told that my grandfather, or one of his family, had caught it with a bucket during the Thames floods of 1947.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 10:36:14 GMT 1
A stuffed pike? In a case? You do realise it probably floated out of a flood victim's home and every effort should have been made to return it.
**Not to be taken seriously.**
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Post by Nifty on Aug 10, 2022 11:06:59 GMT 1
Funnily enough, the young Pike, or Jack, was alive when it was caught. Presumably grandfather was a proud man and sought to have the pike stuffed and mounted by a taxidermist as a lasting record of his achievement. He died in 1956. After my grandmother died in 1968 the pike found it’s way (I suspect that it had an accomplice) into gf’s second son’s home. He died in 1996. Presumably his second wife took charge of it. I don’t know what became of it after she died. All I know is that it ended up as part of what turned ot to be a highly dysfunctional family and I can’t do anything about it except tell it’s story.
The Buddha is in my cousin’s flat in Brighton. Now. There is a story that I am loath to tell until he dies.
I know that I had probably been a bit presumptuous but you should take it however you like it.
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Post by Nifty on Aug 10, 2022 11:49:45 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 12:04:55 GMT 1
Erm ... there are only two in the photo young enough to be you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 12:11:50 GMT 1
The Buddha is in my cousin’s flat in Brighton. Now. There is a story that I am loath to tell until he dies. Buddha? Is that the fish's name.
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Post by Nifty on Aug 10, 2022 13:55:37 GMT 1
The game is to spot my grandfather. A fragment of the pic was left to me by my late uncle who was the youngest I the family. He is not in the pic. When I first saw it I didn’t have much of a clue who was who and I have spent at least ten years finding out. It has been a beguiling time for me. It was some time later that I managed to obtain a facsimile of the whole picture, and, later still, realised that my mother was in the picture and my aim it to make it so for others.
Why picture that uncle left to me was torn will probably alway be a mystery to me, but, there are loads of clues that indicate that g/f was not always the kindly old man I remember him as.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 16:05:27 GMT 1
I hope you find what you're looking for Nifty but it's no helping Stephen get his fishing rod back. 2½ days wages carried down the swannee by an overprotected pile of pillow stuffing.
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Post by Nifty on Aug 10, 2022 16:29:40 GMT 1
What type of rod ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 17:55:16 GMT 1
A fishing rod. I don't know, I'll try to find out. Don't you be going out and buying him a replacement, ya rascal. I think he's doubly gutted (I cannae help it, it's an illness) because his dearly departed dad bought it as a pressie. He's not dead BTW, he got his marching orders.
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Post by Nifty on Aug 10, 2022 18:03:07 GMT 1
I am not going to buy him anything. What do you think I am!
I have one looking for a home.
Which reminds me of the story of when I lost the split cane combination rod that my stepfather gave me in the eary 1960s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 18:13:24 GMT 1
If you were offering, that was kind but he's a 1000 miles away. He has others. In answer to your question, I think you're a interesting character and without wishing to sound condescending, I find you amusing, in a nice way.
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