Happy Christmas 2022

Another year nearly done and dusted and on Sunday it’s Christmas Day. Can you believe we are here already? I sincerely hope you are all doing okay and are getting some proper time off work over the festive period to spend with family and friends. As ever it’s a huge thank you to all of you kind people who take the time to read this blog, engage with me, and even buy some of your fishing tackle via my affiliate links - thank you, thank you.

It’s going to be our first Christmas without my dad who was also a totally adored grandpa to my two girls and various nephews and nieces, but my lovely in-laws have asked my mum to be with us on the Isle of Wight where they live. Whatever happened we were obviously not going to let my mum be on her own at Christmas so it’ll be really good but obviously tinged with sadness that dad isn’t around anymore. Many of you here currently are or have been in a similar boat I am sure, so why don’t we say a collective screw you to the bastard that is cancer and which takes far too many good people well before their time.

You all please take good care and have fun with family and friends. With the current state of the world and who knows where we might be in 2023 I would suggest that the simple things in life such as family and doing good stuff like going fishing have never been more important for a collective well-being. I turn 50 in February, and for the life of me I don’t quite know how I have got to be so grown up in actual years yet still continuing to revel in the fact that I resolutely remain less grownup than my two teenage daughters. That is the way I shall choose to continue and I hope that my genuine love and obsession with this fishing thing comes through loud and clear on this blog. Surely we go fishing quite simply because it’s what we love to do. Happy Christmas and I will catch up with you soon………………..