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Time-warp. Jack Hargreaves was my brother's favourite presenter and Out of Town his favourite program. It brings back happy memories for me too (excuse the theme "Holding Jacks Rod"...These ultra-high cost angling programs (Extreme Fishing & Accidental Angler) are fairly entertaining but I think some simple low cost, expert-led programs like the old Jack Hagreaves, Out of Town, Mike Ladle, etc. programs would be more interesting and useful. ...
"Once a Scottish fisheries patrol vessel, it now flies the Jolly Roger and belongs to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an aggressive, controversial, publicity-hungry environmental group that physically assaults whaling ships, and has been accused of eco-terrorism by both the Japanese government and Greenpeace.
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'...Greenpeace has turned into a gigantic self-perpetuating bureaucracy,' Watson says. 'They spend millions of dollars every year on advertising and direct-mail campaigns simply to raise more money.
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In 1977 Watson was voted off the Greenpeace board of directors for being generally troublesome, arrogant and difficult to work with, for opposing the incoming president Patrick Moore (who has since gone to work for the nuclear and forestry industries, as Watson loves to point out)..."
I know several forum members currently or previously supported the eco-group Sea Shepherd - a spin off and rival of Greenpeace. Coincidently(?) the Sunday Telegraph published an interesting article on them today:
Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd eco-warrior fighting to stop whaling and seal hunts - Telegraph
Brilliant article -really enjoyed it!
I'm all for sticking limpet mines on whalers... come to think of it, I'll extend that to trawlers too:martial
Now there's a thought.
As well as the start of the spearing season, it is also one again, sadly, the start of the "tombstoning" accident & fatality stories:
Tombstoning: Jamie Sutton Dies After Jumping Into Sea Near Souter Point, Whitburn, South Tyneside | UK News | Sky News
And so it continues:..As well as the start of the spearing season, it is also one again, sadly, the start of the "tombstoning" accident & fatality stories:
Tombstoning: Jamie Sutton Dies After Jumping Into Sea Near Souter Point, Whitburn, South Tyneside | UK News | Sky News
...the race to become the first woman to swim to a depth of 100m is being fought between a Russian known as 'the Machine’ and a 37-year-old British yoga teacher who took up the sport only three years ago.
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She believes that she is capable of competing with the best of the male freedivers, and sees 120m as a realistic target – 'maybe even 150,’ she says.
Local knowledge: England's best bits
We discover the treats and treasures the tourists have yet to ruin in the Lake District, Cotswolds, north Norfolk and north Cornwall
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Where to eat
While Tatler describes Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall as “an absolute masterstroke of a restaurant”, locals call it a "catering-college canteen”, preferring to spend their hard-earned at Paul Ainsworth’s Number 6 (01841 532093, number6inpadstow.co.uk), in Padstow.
The menu — think £100 for dinner for two, with wine — includes cod caught that day in Newlyn, scallops harvested by hand by the diver Dave Thomasson and local pork belly, because that’s the law. And while Rick Stein has expanded his empire by taking over the Cornish Arms, in St Merryn, the partisans recommend the St Kew Inn (01208 841259, stkewinn.co.uk), an impossibly lovely spot deep in the Cornish jungle. Modestly, it claims to be “just a pub selling food”.
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