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Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:37 pm
by RBTraditional
Forget all those valentines shenanigans, wives and girlfriends (or both if you’re that unlucky) can wait.... raise a toast to the great Bernard Venables who would have been 113 today!
Cheers Bernard
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:51 pm
by Snape
Here's to Bernard!
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 7:08 pm
by Pallenpool
To Bernard
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 7:10 pm
by Wallys-Cast
Happy Birthday Bernard
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 7:25 pm
by Northern_Nomad
To Bernard
Perhaps in future a Feb 14th memorial fish in. Not a bloody rose or commercial scam in site
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 7:31 pm
by Bobthefloat
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:36 pm
by Mark
To Mr. Crabtree.
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:20 am
by Troydog
Thank you Mr Crabtree; you are the reason I live where I do, and have done for forty years.....
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:43 pm
by RBTraditional
I was sadly never privileged to meet the great man but I often think of him when I’m down on the Romney Marsh where he spent his formative years and discovered the delights of angling as a young boy....
Re: Forget the wife/girlfriend and raise a toast!
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:08 pm
by Troydog
I never met him either RBT but his description of perch fishing on the Wye, page 95, was the inspiration for my visit to Hereford in 1978. I am delighted to report that Mr Crabtree's findings in the 1950's are still valid today.....