13/11/2026 - Bit of fun in the sun

Woke up to the first hard frost of the year and a global Microsoft outage. The latter made work a bit tricky and showed how reliant we have become on large tech companies and their digital systems to keep things running, but at least it forced me to do some boring admin that I'd been putting off. However, after stupidly working through lunch I'd developed a thick head, blurred vision and had had enough of staring at a screen, which hadn't been made any easier by the fact it was such a stunning day outside - bright sunshine, not a cloud in the sky and hardly a breath of wind. I'd also replenished my maggot supply in anticipation of a trip out at the weekend, so the decision to take a break and use up some of my flexi-time to nip off to the Derwent for another short session with the float rod was an easy one, some much needed vitamin D being a bonus. Got togged up in an empty carpark, disturbed a kingfisher at the footbridge then walked upstream to the wood again to find the river gin…

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