A TEST OF PATIENCE
It's becoming hard to stop this blog turning into a non-stop rant about the weather at the moment. In my photographs everything looks fine and sunny but in truth, we have had a lot of northerly and easterly winds making it feel colder than it should be. You only have to step out of the wind to understand how warm it should be. We wanted to fish the College pool today but it is still so badly flooded that we couldn't get close enough to the pool itself to fish. It's been that way for a long, long time now and being spring fed with no outflow promises to be so until the water table drops. The syndicate pool, like the smaller pool at Jubilee, also confusingly called horseshoe is still comatose. We fished it this week and never saw so much as the tiniest rudd flip out and there are a lot of them in there. It was a nice day, the grey lags were proudly showing off this year's goslings, the sedge warblers are chattering away in the reds, but Pete couldn'
