Moonlighting ash

Moonlighting ashIn spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's career, full of ups and downs, as a self employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across

Wilfred Owen

nostalgia and love

For decades he has crossed farmyards

wild animals

from autumn  to autumn

Emergent Sparkle Pupa

a desperate bid to keep up appearances and the tenderest of love scenes

Seized as an exotic prize from the Siege of Buda three years later

because it is the irresistible summons of this shy and beautiful truth that takes hold of them

to suggest 'ghost wings'

in the hope that enthusiasts will get as much satisfaction from producing their own hams

With hundreds of miles of underfished water