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FOREWORD
I am delighted to be writing this foreword to a book that Graeme Whiting has talked about writing for many years. It also allows me the...

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Apr 24, 20223 min read
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CHAPTER 1 - TRIGGLER SKOYLES
I woke up to a beautiful, sunny, copper-coloured autumn morning, and as I opened my bedroom window I could feel a soft, warm breeze, the...

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Apr 23, 202211 min read
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CHAPTER 2 - THE YOUNG MAN AND THE SEA
My passion for fishing had its true genesis from when I was given for Christmas by my dear mother, Ernest Hemingway’s book ‘The Old Man...

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Apr 22, 202213 min read
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CHAPTER 3 - THE OLD SOLDIER
This short, true story began one evening while I was passing by a chip-shop in Maple Cross, Hertfordshire, with Mark Knopfler of Dire...

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Apr 21, 20227 min read
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CHAPTER 4 - A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!
I was six years old in 1950 and I was standing behind my brother Bill in the family’s workshop watching him make a coarse fishing rod....

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Apr 20, 202217 min read
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CHAPTER 5 - CARP FISHING
I was six years old in 1950 and I was standing behind my brother Bill in the family’s workshop watching him make a coarse fishing rod....

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Apr 19, 202218 min read
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CHAPTER 6 - NORFOLK RECORD and ‘Rod the Rod’.
I was looking forward to the new coarse fishing season opening on June 16th. 1977. Throughout the winter my brother Bill, my friend...

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Apr 16, 20228 min read
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CHAPTER 7 - A LESSON LEARNED
When the first breath of Spring called the trees to waken from their wintry graves, and the beauty of nature is re-born, I woke and set...

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Apr 15, 20226 min read
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CHAPTER 8 - CONTROL THROUGH RANK
When one has been alive for a number of decades, in my case over seven, it seems to some that ancient stories are somehow always fiction....

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Mar 15, 20228 min read
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CHAPTER 9 - A RECORD CARP?
I am an author, a headmaster, the founder of an independent school that has challenged the status quo, a father of five adult children, a...

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Mar 14, 202211 min read
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CHAPTER 10 - BAD BOY MAKES GOOD
Tony Montgomery stood on the corner of the main high street in a little town on the Norfolk coast, dragging aggressively at a rather long...

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Mar 13, 20226 min read
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CHAPTER 11 - A LADY IN DISGUISE
In my long life I have seen many tragic and sad events, from bullying and persecution to a plethora of wonderful things that have changed...

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Mar 12, 20228 min read
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CHAPTER 12 - A HARD WAY TO LEARN
Some memories are a little painful so are best left to history, but one incident did affect how I felt about the armed forces! I...

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Mar 11, 20225 min read
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CHAPTER 13 – THE SUBWAY GANG
After I left the army, I was keen to enhance my new life out of uniform. With Rosemary deceased, it was important not only to...

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Mar 10, 20226 min read
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CHAPTER 14 - Des’s story
During the 1970s I was a teacher in a Steiner school and at that time education was very different to the world of education today. There...

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Mar 9, 202212 min read
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CHAPTER 15 - AN EXERCISE IN CONTROL
In 1965 I qualified as a physical training instructor in the army and was proud to be posted to the ultimate job in the headquarters of...

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Mar 8, 20225 min read
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CHAPTER 16 – MIXED MUSINGS AND ADDICTION TO ANGLING
I was six years old in 1950 and I was standing behind my brother Bill in the family’s workshop watching him make a coarse fishing rod....

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Mar 7, 202236 min read
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CHAPTER 17 - GEORGE’S STORY
George was born to a very poor family. His father, a cripple from WWII, was often having to tolerate being laughed at as he dragged his...

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Mar 6, 20227 min read
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CHAPTER 18 - THE SLEEPING POLICEMEN
During my time at Dean Close School, I was keen to embrace a ‘shell’ of a shooting team, comprised of students who had been engaged in...

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Mar 5, 20224 min read
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CHAPTER 19 – NICK’S MEMORY – GRAEME, THE CIRCUS RINGLEADER
In the 1970s and early 80s, Graeme was generally to be found in the sports hall of the King’s Langley Rudolf Steiner school. A large...

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Mar 3, 20222 min read
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