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It’s all about colour! When decking the halls for Christmas, the predominant colours are red and green.
There are reasons for this, notably that the green came from the trees that were evergreen and why, during the winter, pagans and later Christian...
DATE: Dec 17, 2016
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Tight Lines
It’s December and yet winter really has yet to take a bite of this part of the world. Not a complaint but an observation.
We are overdue a winter gale with howling winds that lasts for three days and is punctuated by hard downpours just when it look...
DATE: Dec 03, 2016
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Well, it is that time of the year again! The spring is but a distant memory, the summer flew by and now it is back to wintry kit, miserable riding on motorbikes and the expectation that, at any moment, the weather will turn mightily nasty and we will...
DATE: Nov 26, 2016
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Even after a week punctuated by gusty breezes, falling temperatures and rain, it is the hurricanes and tropical systems that grab all the headlines. But if the truth were to be told, it is the seemingly endless procession of winter gales and cold fro...
DATE: Nov 19, 2016
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Tight Lines
Now that the clocks have gone back, the shift in the air towards that wintry feeling is ever so noticeable. So is the change in the way the weather flows. Less of the southern, warmer influence and more of the northern and western progression of lows...
DATE: Nov 12, 2016
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Tight Lines
It goes that just when one thing sorts itself out, something else goes wrong. Put the tropical systems, onset of winter gales, passages of lows and fronts behind us and what do you have? Admirable fishing conditions, one would like to say, but there ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2016
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Tight Lines
Finally, some more seasonable weather. The seemingly endless heat has broken, perhaps due in part to the passage of tropical systems but no doubt a sign of the onset of the frigid season for our neighbours to the north.
While this makes it clearly t...
DATE: Oct 29, 2016
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Tight Lines
The weather is having difficulties making the usual seasonal transition from summer to winter. After all, there really isn’t autumn here — it cools off and becomes the sort of summer most people dream about.
Then, boom, in comes winter as the northe...
DATE: Oct 22, 2016
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Tight Lines
To paraphrase Henry Ford, “old adages are bunk”. While most have some basis in fact, all too often they become outdated, or at the very least, provide inaccurate representations of life in the real world.
In any case, there are those who will remembe...
DATE: Oct 15, 2016
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Tight Lines
A rather grim outlook for the next week or so, with all this weather making the news. Given that, the commercial fleet will be looking to make sure that their lobster gear is safe and this will further reduce the priority of seeking fin fish.
The few...
DATE: Oct 08, 2016
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Tight Lines
