It's a grey and gloomy start this morning with cloud well down on the fells and the promise of rain spreading in from the west later to give a wet day.  The river is still in good nick and well worth a try for the last sea trout of the season or a late salmon.  Tomorrow should be even better if the rain today gets the fish running on higher water.

We seem to have a glut of mushrooms here just now brought to fruit no doubt by the wet summer and relatively mild autumn.  Cow pasture is dotted with big field mushrooms which are wonderful cooked in butter and served with dry cured bacon.  They also make a great soup and my favourite method is to grind them to a paste with a couple of onions, add olive oil to a pan and cook down before adding thyme, tomato puree, stock and a generous amount of pue lentils.  Wonderful on a cold evening with warm crusty bread and butter.

Before we leave the subject of fishing huts for the time being I thought that some of you might welcome a bit more info about Jo Orchard - Lisle's book.  Attached is a flyer and order form that you can leave around the house as a less than subtle hint as we approach Christmas.

Ian