Stopped…. Hammertime

Those of you who follow this blog will remember the “Hammertime” sign going up under the STOP sign at the top of our road. Well I didn’t know it, but there was another close to it, referencing a Supremes song rather than M.C.Hammer.

Here is the original link to my first post reporting the sign with my photo Kickin It 80's Style

I did report that I didn’t think it would be long before the amusing sign was removed, but I am impressed that it has taken this long! Needless to say it made the local newspaper, so here it is in all its glory.

I knew the kill joys would eventually ruin the fun! So massive road side adverts aren’t a distraction to drivers, nor the ones on buses! What a crock of …. well you know what!

Bunny Rabbit Emma

Here is Emma having had her face painted at Bristol Zoo yesterday, looks cute even if I do say so myself!

   

Here is Emma with her pink flamingo puppet called Sharpay, bought for her by her godfather Simon and Karen.

Here is Emma feeding the Lorikeets, she is a bit scared! But she did it anyway! What a big hero!

Below she can be seen feeding them, I love the one on her head!

Nice Vintage Porsche

On a trip to Bristol Zoo yesterday this car was parked up in a private school, and I couldn’t help but take a few pictures as it was so nice.

Emma gets her Ballet & Tap costume

Now Emma is going to ballet and tap dancing lessons every week, she needed her outfit so we went to Danceworld in Bedminster to buy it today.

So we got her a pink leotard, socks, tutu and both ballet and tap shoes. £60 worse off for all of this though!

Here she is modeling her new costumes…

 

High Tide @ Severn Beach

Tonight saw a 14m tide at Severn Beach so we decided to have a pop at catching something down there.

It was mega busy, and we had to fish off the railings. We did find a spot, but it was far from easy as there were lines everywhere down there, it was like a telephone exchange!

 

As usual none of us caught a bloody fish, there was talk of cod being caught there that week so it explained the amount of people fishing!

Dave notched up the only catch of the night, a shrimp! Gets him to position 2 on the league table for crustaceans!

At one point Dave decided to climb over the wall and try and Batman rope walk back up, unlike the Batman series where the camera is on its side, Dave didn’t fair too well. The rope was way too thin, and gave him rope burns (as we found out later when he used Neil’s antibacterial handwash!).

Unheard of though, was a night without anyone losing any weights or gear! Although Neil did have to wade out into the mud to retrieve his  weight after the hook got caught on a rock! The last picture above shows the state of his boots!

Next stop has got to be Budleigh Salterton, or my personal favourite Lyme Regis (no stones there!).

Neil’s Fishing Doodles

Neil loves to be creative when it comes to the sea rigs we use, especially in the new unchartered territory of sea floats.

Here are some of his pictures!

Here, I believe the “Happy Fisherman” is me, even down to my camo trousers I normally wear!

Here we have an alternate sea float setup based upon the Lyme/Budleigh experience (this remains untested).

Here is the “piece de la resistance”, the Mk1 Bedford “self leveling” float! This design shows great promise, I await to test it in a crab infested situation!

Keep up the good work Neil!

Lyme Regis/Budleigh Salterton – Sea Fishing

What can I say, this venue looked fantastic as well drove down from the hills above the harbour, just look at the view below we had before our eyes.

We decided to fish off the left hand side wall, and I dropped Neil and the gear off whilst I returned up the hill some 200ft from sea level to the car park (£1 all day!).

Look at the magnificent views we had from our point on the wall, what more could you ask for from a venue, excluding fish of course!

   

 

So we setup, posed for a couple of stock photos and off we go on the highly anticipated Lyme Regis fishing event :-)

 

So Neil baits up to try his luck….

The sod only goes and catches a fish! Alright it was certainly not any Great White, but it was a fish!

The species we think is a Whiting.

Neil poses with his first catch of the day!

Check out the teeth on that fish, I thought it was only Piranhas that had teeth!

The fish was returned safely to the sea to carry on with its natural life, we are after all responsible fishermen.

 

Not deterred by this I managed to bag a rather horrible crab, vicious little bugger it was! As it had eaten alot of our bait we decided this little blitter would become bait! Alas it wasn’t to be, its shell was much harder than imagined! When Neil liberated it on the wall, it about turned and scuttled towards him, then squaring up with call outstretched as if to say “Come and have a go if you think your hard enough”, well unfortunately for the “thug” crab, Neil came pre-armed with a big f$%k off pair of boots which hoofed said crab out to sea with some force! Have some of that!

 

So our trip to Lyme was called to a halt, as we decided to change venue to Budleigh Salterton, not influenced in anyway by the lure of some home made food from my parents.

Off we went to Budleigh, on the slowest “A” road in the UK, stuck behind a combine harvester that refused to pull over for ages, and at one point actually started rolling backwards. After 50 minutes we arrived at our destination of Budleigh, first impressions were good!

So we fished, and caught nothing for a while, then my parents turned up and we had lovely fish and chips from a well recommended fish and chip shop. Just what the doctor ordered…!!

Then the unthinkable happened, Neil (yes not me) caught ANOTHER fish!!! This time a Pouting!

Of course he couldn’t help but rub it in!

    

 

The fish was returned unharmed to the sea to continue its life.

I was content at this point to star gaze, as it was jet black and the stars we so bright that night (including some shooting stars). Neil decided to cast out for one more try, and low and behold….

Yes fish number 3, a Pollock, which was returned unharmed.

So then remained the long drive home, for which I was so very tired! Next trip is the Severn Estuary on Friday evening, maybe then I will finally catch something other than a crab!