What a day! Sunshine and the occasional light shower, a scatter of mayflies blowing off the lake and all my chores completed… well, postponed, then. Still, the trout would be hopping fit to clear the water. Days like this are too few to waste. When I got as far as my favourite stream I was not a little disconcerted to find a car, a foreign car at that, straddling both available parking spaces, as if the driver was sending out a message, not that He owned the parking but that He was angling along the river and since it was He that was angling then nobody else should intrude on his solitude or, indeed, dare so far as to share in his sport…
The Mayo News, 31/05/16. Read the full article ‘Vive la différence‘.
