Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
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Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
Did you realise that on this day 420 years ago Izaak Walton was born, happy birthday Izaak.
I fear a toast is called for tonight.
I fear a toast is called for tonight.
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where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
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Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
Happy birthday Izaak
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers,” Herbert Hoover.
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Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
Happy Birthday Izaak.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton
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Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
A glass will be raised this evening.
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
A life worthy of celebration, I'll toast Isaak's memory tonight with an ale or two and a verse from The Compleat Angler:-
"When we please to walk abroad
For our recreation,
In the fields is our abode,
Full of delectation:
Where in a Brook
with a hook,
or a Lake
fish we take,
there we sit
for a bit,
till we fish intangle."
(taken from the Gutenberg online reproduction)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9198/9198-h/9198-h.htm
"When we please to walk abroad
For our recreation,
In the fields is our abode,
Full of delectation:
Where in a Brook
with a hook,
or a Lake
fish we take,
there we sit
for a bit,
till we fish intangle."
(taken from the Gutenberg online reproduction)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9198/9198-h/9198-h.htm
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Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
Three cheers for Isaak...
Hip Hip..Hooray
Hip Hip..Hooray
Hip Hip..Hooray
Hip Hip..Hooray
Hip Hip..Hooray
Hip Hip..Hooray
SK
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“Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards to see outwards. And capture it in writing.”
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Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
A glass of wine or two to toast him tonight
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Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
I raised one too many ales last night, I shall celebrate by going for a walk with a copy of The Compleat Angler and sit under a tree by the river and read a passage or two. Happy Birthday Izaak.
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Re: Happy birthday to Izaak Walton
I shall raise a glass when I return home from work tonight...
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories