Here is a little gem I came across recently, it's not about fishing so much as a way of life and is a gentle narration of a diminishing era.
https://youtu.be/dp6UXLD00GA
1975 Anglia TV documentary
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Thanks. Really enjoyed that. In some ways quite sad to think that much of this will be long gone, despite it being well within our lifetime. I remember Alan Dobie as the Victorian detective Cribb.
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Funnily enough, this appeared on my suggested video’s on YouTube last week, it’s a great time capsule to a world we have lost in our relentless pursuit of modernity and technology.
"Chasing frothy bubbles while the world is full of troubles"
"Simple pleasures maybe, but very real ones, which seem all the more precious in these restless modern days."
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"Simple pleasures maybe, but very real ones, which seem all the more precious in these restless modern days."
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I enjoyed that very much and I bet a lot harder times than the film would have you think.
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Very true
He does say at the beginning “we have everything we need right here, except money”
"Chasing frothy bubbles while the world is full of troubles"
"Simple pleasures maybe, but very real ones, which seem all the more precious in these restless modern days."
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"Simple pleasures maybe, but very real ones, which seem all the more precious in these restless modern days."
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Yep, and the same words I used when my wife needed a new dress or the kids were on the earole.Northern Eel wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:17 amVery true
He does say at the beginning “we have everything we need right here, except money”
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"Chasing frothy bubbles while the world is full of troubles"
"Simple pleasures maybe, but very real ones, which seem all the more precious in these restless modern days."
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"Simple pleasures maybe, but very real ones, which seem all the more precious in these restless modern days."
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Absolutely absorbing and a little sad that his likes will never work the fens again.
"You do not cease to fish because you get old, you get old because you cease to fish"