🌞 June 2025

🐦‍⬛ Garden nature diary: June 2025 more

🦆 Cotwall End Valley nature diary: June 2025 more

🎣 The first session of the summer, three species of fish on the bank and the first time ever that I’ve caught one of these! more

✝️ Our ‘real’ church and how I met my wife and was married within months more

🎣 Three species of fish on prawn, a predator in the swim and talking angling on radio more

💰 Drum roll as the monthly premium bonds reveal is announced more

🎣 Welcome to autumn, Rip Van Winkle and a return to the tench lake more

⚽️ At the age of 63 years, 1 month and 12 days… more

✝️ While working in a garden, a lady approached me more

🎣 After a day’s work, a visit to the tench lake more

🛍️ A visit to the mall and, again, it’s always a powerful reminder more

🎣 A dusk angling session and a tench on the last cast more

🎣 No tench on the bank but lots of roach, who weren’t put off by the large hook more

🎣 Shopping for prawns, fishing with prawns and third time lucky with the tench more

🎣 A chilly start to a June day but, whatever the conditions, just go fishing anyway more

✝️ The Church at Hiraeth, don’t give up and keep going for your work will be rewarded and our guest this week is Pete Wright more

🎣 Talking angling on the radio followed by a late afternoon tench session on a Shropshire estate lake more

🎣 Best perch of the year and dealing with snagged fish more

✝️ It’s not selfish to look after yourself more

🎣 Chasing crucian carp, my first overnighter of 2025 and escaped maggots in my wife’s fridge more

🎣 Back on a small pool, this time with four species of fish caught on prawn more

🎣 A short, evening fun fishing session on a pond and more news for Himley Hall anglers more

🎣 A return visit to the pond and another enjoyable angling session more

✝️ Together 2025: Steve Williams, Saltmine, Paddy Simba, Brittany Danielle, Limoblaze and more more

🎣 My weekly angling slot on radio, followed by getting the season underway barbel fishing on the River Severn where I was more Auckland City rather than Bayern Munich more

🎣 Gardening on the road, followed by a fish-filled, action-packed very enjoyable angling session on a pond more

✝️ Being offended and dealing with it more

🎣 After the school sports day, I went fishing, with three species of fish from a small pond more

🎶 Galaxy by War and more musical memories from my teenage years more

☀️Enjoying the heatwave and I don’t mean Martha Reeves and The Vandellas more

🎣 Fishing the River Severn, the first fish of the new season and thoughts on ‘nanny state’ angling more

🎣 Work, fishing, work more

🎣 It might be the hottest day of the year but I still went fishing anyway more

🗣️ With six months of retirement behind me, the positives and the negatives revealed more

✝️ Power to witness and are ghosts real? more

🎣 The heatwave is over, it’s raining and it’s as you were as far as the fishing is concerned more

🎣 Tench fishing to begin the working week, my radio slot has been recorded and news for Himley Hall anglers more

🎶 Temptations Live! and the only one of its kind to feature David Ruffin more

🎣 Session three of the new river season and it’s another return to the Severn more

✝️ When Iran calls you a war mongering and lawless administration more

🎣 Up for the challenge on the Shropshire Severn more

🎣 The third River Severn session on the bounce, thoughts on angling secrecy when it comes to locations and some quality birds seen more

🎣 First brook session of the new season and my second species plus thrilled to spot a new mammal for the area more

🎶 With A Lot O’ Soul and it’s another classic from The Temptations more

🎣 Community café in the morning, and on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal chatting with Chris Jones and his kids, who were fishing, in the evening more

🎣 With just three hours sleep, back on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal in pursuit of perch with prawn more

✝️ Speaking at Bridge Church, keep believing and taking the first step more

🇬🇧 An enjoyable time at Himley Hall for Armed Forces Day 2025 more

🎣 The conditions aren’t ideal but a specimen three-spined stickleback to start the working week and talking angling on Bayside Radio more

🐾 Dramatic Dilwyn, the importance of getting to know your dog more