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I have an unusual Fenn MK 4 that was either a mistake on the production line or ,more likely, an experimental model designed to produce more power .Note the springs( approx 3mm gauge) on the standard MK4 on the left. Then look at the springs on the green MK4 (approx 4mm gauge). They are the same gauge as those used on the MK6 in the backround. The thing is not quite impossible to set but you have to be brave . Wouldn't like to do it with cold hands!

There are days when it all goes wrong and l'm glad nobody is there to see it . Then there are the ones that you really want to share with a friend. Has to be a good friend though . What a fantastic day's fishing you had . 300 fish! And a long walk to prove you earned them . Far more satisfying than driving up to the river and fishing out of the boot of your car. Proper fishing

Assuming you are not talking about the O ring . I've never taken a Goodnature piston assembly apart . So l have to ask ,where and what is the " diaphragm "? Goodnature are not renowned for their after sales service . Their distributors are well stocked with expensive accessories but not basic service parts . From what l've heard though they don't have the inclination or knowledge to do repairs . Once the unit is out of warranty they don't want to know.

A very old friend and l manage a few days fishing together every season. He usually out catches me . When l do catch something decent it is almost always by some fluke or in odd circimstances. Not only that , it's a standing joke that l only ever catch disabled fish . One classic example of many was a 5lb tench caught a year or two ago from his club lake . I was marvelling at the perfection of my biggest tench ever when my mate cruelly pointed out that it had two fins missing! Anyway, a week ago he came as a guest on the little farm pond l have permission on, and trounced me on h

Back to the farm pond with a mate and one of his friends as a guest. Said guest hauled in five small (five!) tench ,some decent rudd and what he described as a few small carp. Small maybe ,but they were the biggest carp ever caught in the pond ,albeit not much more than a pound each. He let slip he was actually an angling coach . It showed too . Far from being disillusioned by the size of the pond and its inhabitants he professed to having a grand time going back to his boyhood fishing roots. My mate caught his second ever tench so was pleased too. He'd just unhooked it

I'd been a member of my local club on and off for 50 years. Then they brought in a rule that ALL anglers had to carry an unhooking mat the size of a tennis court and a landing net big enough to recover the Titanic even if they weren't fishing for carp. This applied to the club waters that didn't even hold carp! Shit went my usual habit of bait in one pocket tackle in another and sensible sized landing net that didn't snag undergrowth and was more than big enough to cope with the sort of stuff l'm likely to catch. A black bin liner folded in one pocket makes a portable unlhoo

Years ago l raised a few rabbits supposedly for meat after being given a few old commercial rabbit cages. We were running on the good life , self-sufficiency vibe . Silly really as l could get plenty of wild rabbits for the pot and have a surplus to sell without the bother of cleaning cages , rearing and feeding the tame ones. Another weird thing was killing the white fluffy ones : l just didn't like doing it. Yet l would ping a wild one's neck without a thought. Then the penny dropped , the real money was in selling the baby rabbits to our local pet shop! My daughter got hea

My memory failed me . She wasn't a pointer cross. You are right .She was foxhound cross . The edition you read must've been a re-published one because l read it in my school library in the early 70s . I wonder if you'd find many hunting books in school libraries these days!

My school library had Rebecca ,am l right thinking she was a pointer cross ? It was a long time ago . The school library also had Of Pedigree Unknown the original mid sixties edition. I did once have the later 70s edition with Drabble's updates but lent it to someone . They must've liked it because l haven't seen it since . Some of Plummer's claimed escapades as related in his Tales of a Rat Hunting Man read suspiciously like reworkings of Drabble's anecdotes .

Without Ozzy, Sabbath were nothing special and Ozzy without Sabbath was just a sad cliche in real life and on the stage . Still ,Black Sabbath was part of my early 70s yoof, so l've been alternately shrugging and grinning at Ozzy's antics for over half a century

Luckily the reality show passed me by as l haven't had a tele for getting on for 30 years . I imagine it was something like a real life version of the Munsters but without the witty humour . Nothing he did musically after the late 70s was even remotely interesting , just dross cleverly promoted by his wife with Ozzy reinvented as Satan's left hand man ( l think the Pope sits on the right) . And fair play to her ; she certainly put the hours in! Drugs, booze ,infidelity, domestic violence , shit parenting; Oz sounds a right xxxx . Factor-in illness and injury

Dunno , if l saw a long haired old bloke in blue shades shambling down the High Street ,mumbling to himself . I kinda think as a matter of self- preservation l would take notice..... Unless it was in downtown Devizes or virtually any town in Cornwall ,that's pretty normal behaviour .

I fished there a few times. One day l was fluff chucking as per the rules of his trout lakes when a couple of lads appeared. They both set up float rods baited with worms or maggots and started hauling out a trout almost every cast. Along came Roger Daltrey in some little buggy thing who WHO had a word in their ears . He then came over to me, apologised , and told me one the lads was his son and that he'd been told not to do" that sort of thing in front of the paying punters." To be honest l did like him for some reason.

I thought the same. Ozzy without wife Sharon's public relations skill would've been dead in the water 40 years ago and managed to blag a good living . Gazza not quite so lucky.