Diversity

Single mindedness – a condition I’m totally guilty of this time of year! “You going fishing this weekend?” friends or family ask; “Where?” I hate answering this question. I feel rather unadventurous in a world where we are ‘supposed’ to be out exploring new places, posting photos to check them off like trophies, while I’m taking every chance I get (never enough!) to get down to that beautiful, powerful, churning river with its magical fishbowl at the end, promising runs of silver bullets.

To be honest though, Winter's when many completely lose their adventurousness and recline into weekends of binged sport and Netflix, where a walk in the park or to the Dairy for pack of Doritos and a Perky Nana or two is ‘getting out there’. When you casually mention standing waist deep in an ice-cold river all weekend and praying for as much rain as possible, you