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Monday, 3 September 2012

Fishing The River Usk Pt1

Unlikely as it may seem, especially to regular readers: myself and The Lighthouse Keeper are making our way westwards to fish the River Usk a Brown Trout stream that rises in the notorious Brecon Beacons. The Brecon's are an exceptionally handsome range of hills in Wales that have been the making or breaking of many a military career. I've been up there a few times over the years and the place is usually thick with squaddies being beasted along by their PT instructors. Who will, amongst other choice incentives, be offering age-old moto of the Brecon experience "if it aint raining it aint training!"

While the poor young recruits are suffering it, TLK and myself will be living out our Trout Bum fantasies; drinking whiskey-laden coffee for breakfast, eating fried things, and growing Abercrombie and Fitch style stubble.

A few mobile posts to follow and then a full report on our return, in the meantime more military cliches HERE
Your pal
SBW

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2 comments:

  1. Bill Lemanski4 September 2012 at 03:21

    Hey, here's a Yankee Viet Nam War military cliche:

    This is my rifle (an M16 in my case),
    this is my gun (an anatomical appendage),

    One is for killing, one is for fun.

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  2. LSP5 September 2012 at 03:41

    gotta love the brecons!

    no gain without pain.

    whatever.

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