A great piece as always Mark. Thank you.
Now my dad was never a fisherman, but he introduced me to it by buying me a kid's outfit, more to keep me quiet on family holidays than anything else, and I was largely left to my own devices, learning from others around me at places like Exmouth pier, Llangorse lake, and numerous little streams and rivers that surrounded the cottages in Devon and Cornwall where most of our holidays were taken.
This soon progressed with dad soon becoming an expert at finding some of the more out of the way fishing spots on the Somerset levels near my home. Although he hated driving he would always find the time to take me and pick me up at the end of the day, and always had a camera handy, just in case!
Now I cannot repay the debt by taking him fishing, but as he has developed Parkinson's in recent years, I am now his taxi driver and every time I take him somewhere I cast my mind back to all the hours he spent ferrying me around.
Thank you mate, you made me the man I am today.
Now my dad was never a fisherman, but he introduced me to it by buying me a kid's outfit, more to keep me quiet on family holidays than anything else, and I was largely left to my own devices, learning from others around me at places like Exmouth pier, Llangorse lake, and numerous little streams and rivers that surrounded the cottages in Devon and Cornwall where most of our holidays were taken.
This soon progressed with dad soon becoming an expert at finding some of the more out of the way fishing spots on the Somerset levels near my home. Although he hated driving he would always find the time to take me and pick me up at the end of the day, and always had a camera handy, just in case!
Now I cannot repay the debt by taking him fishing, but as he has developed Parkinson's in recent years, I am now his taxi driver and every time I take him somewhere I cast my mind back to all the hours he spent ferrying me around.
Thank you mate, you made me the man I am today.