June 2026

Stewart Bloor
🎣 Fishing | Welcome to summer and the first angling session of the new season comes good right at the end
🚿DIY | Working on the shower at home
🎶 Vinyl records | A Diana Ross single joins the gang from a Merry Hill charity shop
💷 Premium bonds | The monthly draw has been made 🎣 Fishing | An early start on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal 🚿 DIY | The first shower has been taken
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth | Don’t give up, keep going
🎣 Fishing | Early morning on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal 🏡 The garden at Hiraeth | Drive, path, patio and summer bedding plants
🎣 Fishing | On the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal with Ian Clarke 📹 Making videos | A new gadget makes its debut
🎣 Tench fishing a lake and at least I wasn’t a blanker
✍️ Blogging | 22 years, 48 weeks later and keeping life simple
🎣 Fishing | Targeting evening tench and the reel handle saga
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth | Far-fetched Bible stories, Lifegroup and The rainbow
🎣 Fishing | An early start on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal
🏡 The garden at Hiraeth | The fairy garden and the lawns cut before the rain comes
🎣 Fishing | Back on the lake in search of a tench
🎣 Fishing | Three species from a short afternoon fun session on a pond
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: An ornithological lesson on maturity and growing up
🎣 Fishing | Tench on an estate lake and when the fish won’t come to you…
🏡 The garden at Hiraeth | Trimming, weeding and clearing
🎣 Fishing | Rain stops gardening play but the angling show continues and another pleasant surprise
⚽️ Football | World Cup 2026 diary (Part 1)
🎣 Fishing | Targeting tench on a local lake
✍️ Blogging | 22 years, 49 weeks and time flies, therefore make the most of every day
🎣 Fishing | On an estate lake in pursuit of tench
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth | The World Cup, Football and discipleship, Bridge Church
🎣 Fishing | A visit to RD Tackle, The great maggot escape, On the Staffs & Worcs Canal
🎣 Fishing | Last pool session before the river season gets underway
🌳Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal | A walk along the towpath at Caunsall (Bridge 26)
🎣 Fishing | A midnight start to the new flowing water season after barbel on a stream
🎣 Fishing | The first visit to the River Severn, as the new season gets underway
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To everything there is a season)
🎣 Fishing | Back to still water angling and a tench session on the challenging pool
⚽️ Football | World Cup 2026 diary (Part 2)
🎣 Fishing | On the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal and another oops experience
🎣 Fishing | Not a surprise fish any more and the technological miracle
✍️ Blogging | 22 years and 50 weeks later
🎣 Fishing | Saturday morning on the River Stour
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth | World Cup, Bridge Church, Spiritual gifts, Organisation, Creativity, How Great Thou Art
🎣 Fishing | Chasing tincas, My good deed for the day, Norwegian angling cap
🎶 Vinyl | Sul Y Tadau Hapus as Wonderland by Commodores joins the collection
🎣 Fishing | On the River Severn with five species on the bank, including one I’ve never caught from there before
🎣 Fishing | Action all the way on a still water and some world is my oyster angling memories
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth | Life lesson from England’s World Cup campaign so far
🎣 Fishing | Day three of the heatwave but the angling continues
🎣 Fishing | A result on the needle-in-a-haystack pool, as the heatwave enters day four
🎣 Fishing | As the heatwave enters its final day, its quality over quantity tench and rudd on the bank
✍️ Blogging | 22 years and 51 weeks later
🎣 Fishing | As the heatwave evaporates, a morning session on the River Stour with four species of fish on the bank
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth | The World Cup, Himley Road Methodist Church, Question Time
🎣 Fishing | Three hours sleep and then on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal but was it worth it?
⚽️ Football | World Cup 2026 diary (Part 3)
🎣 Fishing | On the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal for the penultimate session of the month
🎣 Fishing | The final session of the month with three species from a pond
🐾 Dilwyn | The diary of a Bedlington terrier