Jim

Hi Kam, I was just thinking of you the other day as I was making these. Remember the top of your old fireplace? I transformed it into four carvings of my brother's family. Produced from a photo. 👍🙂 Thanks for that. Hope all's well. Jim

We've been twice on Canary islands cruises. Last time a couple of years ago we negotiated a discount and went for a minivan taxi ride of the sights. I was so impressed that I gave the guy the full price. 👍Beautiful place. We followed a toboggan down the hill in the taxi. That was fun. 😃 Didn't go fishing though. Didn't need to. Plenty of food on the ship. 😁

Get well soon Charlie. There seems to be a LOT of it about this year. 😒

You've played your TRUMP card there Rob.

Have you seen the new Lego? Interactive bricks. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16hBgHUdb9/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Well done Chris. A Mammoth task.

You were NOT kidding when you said a total strip down Chris. I take my hat off to you sir! 👍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_QxbFm_zOQ

Chris with a Bass on the species comp.

Chris with his Bass.

I had another trip out on Madness with Martin & Chris W. Some "cheeky beggars" appeared out of nowhere to nick the buoy we were going to tie up on. 😜 So we changed plan and headed for the castle. Guaranteed a fish there we thought. Martin skilfully took us all around the mark but not a single bite. OK off to the swash. Certain to pick something up. Nope! although I did have one bite but missed it. 😪 (That'll be another one that gets bigger every time I tell the story) 😁 It was jolly lumpy out there and with the waves hitting us side on we gave it a couple of hours and then we headed back into the harbour. Greg was still on "our secret mark" Jerry was drifting and after a while tied up to a buoy. We just kept trying different drifts. Chris managed to "winkle out" a Bass which saved the blank. 👍 As said above: Back on the 1:30 bridge and a clean down then into the club house for the "weigh in" 😉 Jerry decided to do a "raffle" for the turkey which some Fat bloke won. Thanks Jerry. 🤣 He had also made sure that everyone got a prize so smile all round and Jackie's pleased with the turkey. ( Winner winner turkey dinner) Thanks all for taking part. Thanks Jerry for organising it. And thanks Martin & Chris for putting up with me again. At the end of the day .. . . . . . It's just a lads' day out. Oh . . . . . . and the days are now getting longer again. Yippppppeeeeeeeee. 😃

Can't remember Colin. That was just a computer simulation of what it would look like. That was 200 x 200mm. Got a bit of wood and made it into 6 pieces today. 145 x 130 x 20 I think it's Mahogany. Coming down smaller with the same size cutter will lose definition. But going to a smaller cutter will greatly increase the carving time. I intend carving a few bits to practice over the next few days. Always on the lookout for decent bits of hard wood colin.😉 Jim

Cake. Yes without fruit. Mince pies. No. Don't like them. Fussy old B****r 😜

Sorry to hear that Jerry. 😒

I would love to come out Charlie but can't. 👍

Wicked! Yes please Martin. Thanks very much. 👍

Anyone need crew? 👍

Jim's first Bass in ages. Caught at a secret location in Dorset.

Thanks Rob. Congrats to Mike & Clare on the new venture. All the best for the future.

Success then Colin.

Very good Colin but you can't win. Only "Likes" count as scores. 🤣

All I know is . . . . . When I moved here in 94 We could go to the mackerel places to catch a few then go off fishing for other stuff. Now you can fish all day for them and not find one. 😟

Great news Greg. Glad it went smoothly. 😉