Here we go for a new week coming from a brilliant weekend which was greatly enjoyable, none of which included angling. On Friday night I drove into Birmingham, not something I would usually do as I get bewildered in cities being very much the rural boy, but I was off to see Big Country at the O2 Academy. The show was fantastic, with Mike Peters standing in for the late, great Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson's boy Jamie strumming 2nd guitar.
I fervently hope that a live album will follow the completion of the tour when the second outing finishes in April as it will go directly onto the MP3 player on my iPhone. Which brings me to my query for the day, is the MP3 player an acceptable part of the modern fishing tackle? I don't know what the thinking is in modern fishing protocol, but I suppose that such a solitary activity will inevitably mean that plugging in the MP3 player is a keen temptation for many. But if pegs are positioned by the water at fairly close distances, the last thing the neighbours want when they are angling is the tch tch tch tch etc from the next peg if they tend not to have their own tunes.
I cannot say for definite what my preference might be. I love my music, my taste tends to range from Dr Dre to Dvorjak. I do not really get much opportunity to use my personal stereo as a rule, but I also have always seen fishing to be something to be performed quietly to allow for time by myself to relax and be alone but with a purpose that isn't too strenuous. So do I want to put my personal stereo in with my fishing tackle? It's a tricky one.
On Saturday I was back in Brum, this time with the family as we decided on the city for something of a change. I hadn't been in since the city centre was revamped although I did go once while they were building and got so horribly lost that I refused to go back. But I was really impressed, we went to the Bull Ring and Selfridges, though the thing is that it is, as always in shopping centres, the normal same faces of shops as you get everywhere else. It is a great pity that specialist outlets don't get a look in. Has anybody ever tried to set up a chain of fishing tackle shops? I do remember that there was a very smart looking music shop (by which I mean a shop for people performing music rather than another HMV) but that didn't last long. perhaps it's the nature of the dedicated retailer that they need to be situated in corners and backstreets and have that local expertise and custom rather than a more open situation or presence in shopping arcades and precincts.
I think it's a shame because the expert shop for things such as fishing tackle or modelling tend to be operated by the devotee and will never make the owners well off (and I freely admit that in the majority of cases they have no wish to be so), but why can't somebody make a very general fishing tackle chain work and bring more people to the activity as a result? I know that many will rile and say that a big chain will put the proper local specialist into bankruptcy, but I don't concur since when someone decides to come into the sport, gets their first set of fishing tackle and a feel that they want to go on, the experts will then come into their own. Also, managers of shopping centres such as Westfield may not be too happy on one of their shops being a breeding ground for maggots and other live bait so again, the specialists will pick up the business.
It was fabulous, another opportunity to see my favourite band of all time, a day out with the family and a gentle Sunday at home makes for the best weekend.
20110110
I fervently hope that a live album will follow the completion of the tour when the second outing finishes in April as it will go directly onto the MP3 player on my iPhone. Which brings me to my query for the day, is the MP3 player an acceptable part of the modern fishing tackle? I don't know what the thinking is in modern fishing protocol, but I suppose that such a solitary activity will inevitably mean that plugging in the MP3 player is a keen temptation for many. But if pegs are positioned by the water at fairly close distances, the last thing the neighbours want when they are angling is the tch tch tch tch etc from the next peg if they tend not to have their own tunes.
I cannot say for definite what my preference might be. I love my music, my taste tends to range from Dr Dre to Dvorjak. I do not really get much opportunity to use my personal stereo as a rule, but I also have always seen fishing to be something to be performed quietly to allow for time by myself to relax and be alone but with a purpose that isn't too strenuous. So do I want to put my personal stereo in with my fishing tackle? It's a tricky one.
On Saturday I was back in Brum, this time with the family as we decided on the city for something of a change. I hadn't been in since the city centre was revamped although I did go once while they were building and got so horribly lost that I refused to go back. But I was really impressed, we went to the Bull Ring and Selfridges, though the thing is that it is, as always in shopping centres, the normal same faces of shops as you get everywhere else. It is a great pity that specialist outlets don't get a look in. Has anybody ever tried to set up a chain of fishing tackle shops? I do remember that there was a very smart looking music shop (by which I mean a shop for people performing music rather than another HMV) but that didn't last long. perhaps it's the nature of the dedicated retailer that they need to be situated in corners and backstreets and have that local expertise and custom rather than a more open situation or presence in shopping arcades and precincts.
I think it's a shame because the expert shop for things such as fishing tackle or modelling tend to be operated by the devotee and will never make the owners well off (and I freely admit that in the majority of cases they have no wish to be so), but why can't somebody make a very general fishing tackle chain work and bring more people to the activity as a result? I know that many will rile and say that a big chain will put the proper local specialist into bankruptcy, but I don't concur since when someone decides to come into the sport, gets their first set of fishing tackle and a feel that they want to go on, the experts will then come into their own. Also, managers of shopping centres such as Westfield may not be too happy on one of their shops being a breeding ground for maggots and other live bait so again, the specialists will pick up the business.
It was fabulous, another opportunity to see my favourite band of all time, a day out with the family and a gentle Sunday at home makes for the best weekend.
20110110
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