One of the great angling mysteries of all time

dezza · Jun 9, 2012

Who the heck was Patsy?

Most of us I am sure have read "Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing." In the perch section, old Crabtree catches a nice perch and then proclaims to Peter that he will take a nice perch home for Patsy - "she will never have a better fish to cook."

As a reader of Mr Crabtree in the fifties, and because I brought many a perch home to eat then, I can confirm that perch are indeed very nice to eat.

But the mystery still remains, "Who the heck WAS Patsy"?

The answer to that mystery has obviously gone the way of Bernard Venables who died some years ago. But throughout my life I had marked down this one question if I ever did run into BV, which I never did.

"Who the heck was Patsy?"

Have any of you any idea?

jasonbean1 · Jun 9, 2012

not the answer but a nice read, only bernard would know i reckon

http://www.bobrobertsonline.co.uk/bill-ted-and-lees-excellent-adventure-by-lee-swords/

Mark Wintle · Jun 9, 2012

Patsy was the star of another Daily Mirror column that was about cooking and household management. She was newly married to Peter who was not the same as the Peter in Mr Crabtree being a fair bit older. The only relationship between Patsy and Crabtree was that occasionally Crabtree would supply fish eg perch to Patsy to cook. Other characters in Patsy include Mum and Dad, Mrs Always and Joan Featherpenny. In the book she cooks roach supplied by Crabtree.

Patsy's adventures were put into a similar format book to the original Mr Crabtree (wire binding though) called Patsy's Reflections also published circa 1950. I have a copy as my mother received a copy from a friend when she got married.

904_cannon · Jun 9, 2012

Probably his live-in (careless??) housekeeper, Ron

But would that thought dent the image of 'Mr Crabtree' ?

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Jun 9, 2012

Well Ron , Mark's solved your mystery

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · Jun 9, 2012

Ron you posted this same thread on trad Angler's a little while ago. Did they not solve the mystery got you?

bennygesserit · Jun 9, 2012

Taxi for Ron

dezza · Jun 9, 2012

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) said:
Ron you posted this same thread on trad Angler's a little while ago. Did they not solve the mystery got you?
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Mark certainly seems to have solved the riddle. Thanks Mark - I have myself often been asked who Patsy was?

And no, no-one on Trad Fisherman came up with a reasonable answer. But Mark has one of the best collections of angling magazines in the country.

Peter Jacobs · Jun 9, 2012

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) said:
Ron you posted this same thread on trad Angler's a little while ago. Did they not solve the mystery got you?

. . or was that the thread where they told you to "Belt Up?"

No matter, but thanks to Mark for solving the mystery

barbelboi · Jun 9, 2012

Ron The Hat Clay said:
Mark certainly seems to have solved the riddle. Thanks Mark - I have myself often been asked who Patsy was?

And no, no-one on Trad Fisherman came up with a reasonable answer. But Mark has one of the best collections of angling magazines in the country.

Err, you must have forgotten to read the answers of TFF Ron

mg:

Jerry

Patsy's Reflections, the Daily Mirror book of the cookery strip, shows her as a housewife with a husband Peter. Mr Crabtree sometimes supplies her with perch and other fish, but isn't a member of the family. Patsy's Reflections Learn to Cook by Pictures (1946 UK) comic books ...

dezza · Jun 9, 2012

barbelboi said:
Err, you must have forgotten to read the answers of TFF Ron

No I didn't read them Jerry.

Still we now have an answer.

Neil Maidment · Jun 9, 2012

"And no, no-one on Trad Fisherman came up with a reasonable answer."

"No I didn't read them Jerry."

:wh

mg:

Morespiders · Jun 9, 2012

Glad your back Ron, keep up the good work winding them up

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Jun 9, 2012

Caught in the slips
Again

dezza · Jun 9, 2012

And by the way I was not kicked off Traditional Fisherman. I left of my own free will, mainly because I have nothing in common with most members.

Ahoy Shelob!

Ray Roberts · Jun 9, 2012

Was this Patsy Pzellowiski the Polish fish plunderer? I think we should be told!

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · Jun 9, 2012

Ron The Hat Clay said:
And by the way I was not kicked off Traditional Fisherman. I left of my own free will, mainly because I have nothing in common with most members.

Ahoy Shelob!

Nothing in common????

What about angling for starters?

Perhaps it's because on a thread about Wallis casting you chose to point out that you use the best reel for trotting- a Daiwa TDR....

There was no response to that comment was there.

flightliner · Jun 9, 2012

Michell match --every time!

dezza · Jun 9, 2012

flightliner said:
Michell match --every time!

They are OK for kak handers.......whhooo I'm forgetting, you are kak handed!

The other bloke who likes Mitchell 300s is Chris Ball who is also kak handed.

Sorry - 301s

noknot · Jun 9, 2012

Ron The Hat Clay said:
They are OK for kak handers.......whhooo I'm forgetting, you are kak handed!

The other bloke who likes Mitchell 300s is Chris Ball who is also kak handed.

Sorry - 301s

Love it Ron, I just cant understand your inspiration and thought process, if there is one at all?

mg:

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