Just a quick update this morning as I'm off to Bradford shortly for an eye check up.  It is truly remarkable what modern medicine can do with just a quick and almost painless procedure.  Since having the lenses in both my eyes replaced earlier in the year the world has taken on a whole new palette of colours.  Images that have been blurred now stand in sharp focus and textures that once were a uniform matte now show amazing detail.  Anyone contemplating cataract surgery should grasp the opportunity eagerly.  You won't believe the difference it can make to the way you appreciate the world around you.  The only problem I now have is that I need reading glasses and keep forgetting where I left them!  A small price to pay for virtual normality.

We got nothing like the volume of rain promised for yesterday so the river is still very low.  The week looks unsettled, but is unlikely to be particularly wet so salmon fishing will have to wait a wee bit longer.  What we did get yesterday will have freshened up the pools a bit so the pursuit of brown trout should not be in vain.

We will stock the Tarn this week once the pick up is back on the road.  More on this when I hear from the supplier.

Ian