Author archive for Roger Patrick

It is Thursday 11th October and the River is at its lowest since we started to keep records. The gauge at…

The River continues to show her bones and although water temperatures have dropped very slightly from the highest level in…

It’s in “good knick” – Well, it certainly was when I walk along the banks in the snow and rain last…

As the Festive Season arrived so did the rain and rather a lot of it: on 23rd December the Damery…

It was rather surreal walking the River last Friday in the falling snow: it was a silent place save the squelching…

Autumn: for some a happy time, for others a difficult time, for many a busy time, for the fish a…

It has been raining, quite a lot, but as ever, not a much as we need: the annual rainfall in our…

We wished for more rain and it came, sometimes in buckets, but never as constantly as is needed. The ground was…

Well, we have had some rain: unfortunately, not enough and often as extremely heavy down pours: the sustained rain that…