Missed Opportunities All Round

I don't know exactly how Mark Cavendish is feeling right now missing out on his cycling road race medal, but I can imagine. Not sure I understand all this Peleton business, but maybe the Tour de France's finish was just too recent. It looked to me though like Team GB was also left deliberately high and dry by all the others teams. Maybe he should have pretended to be an Italian like the racing cyclist character Dave Stoller in one of my all-time favourite films Breaking Away .

Different scale of course, but dissapointment for me too today, as I had to decline an invition to fly fish the Wharf at Addingham today with Kempy. Reasons were that I needed to work today on trying to finish my Aberdeen strategy, and that my god-damn hedge needed cutting again tomorrow (because of all the recent rain, as normally I only cut it once a year). Anyway, in honour of that sense of deep loss of my leisure time, here is my open but unused fly box. The wet (underwater) flies are upper, and the dry (floating) flies are in the lower cases. If you look hard enough you might even spot an ancient old pattern of a Tups Indispensible. These were alledgedly tied using the died orange hairs off a rams bollocks (as in those days, farmers used a sponge or rag soaked in dye tied to the under side of the Ram, so they could inspect their flock to see which females had dye stained on their backs from being 'tupped').

I have also just realised that we missed Lifeboat Day in Beaumaris, Anglesey today too. Our friend Carolyn from Anglesey asked me to 'Like' the Beaumaris RNLI Facebook Page, which I did. If anyone else is feeling that way inclined out there also, it would be much appreciated. Carolyn manages the RNLI website for the station voluntarily, and her husband is Glen the Lifeboat, as previously blipped.

Late afternoon flight to Isle of Man tomorrow with Noah for a couple of days work, so am half expecting to find the island in mourning for poor Mr Cavendish.