Author: Jon Izzard
Published articles: 37
After a highly welcome break, we have returned from Fuerteventura. We had a fantastic time, lots of sunshine, sea, swimming, excellent tuck and drinks and in my case, I was able to get in some angling for a day too. Almost an idyllic vacation.
Sport takes many forms from the usual to the totally bizarre, but what connects all those with an interest, either as participants or fans, is the component of fate and how they try to move the chance into their experience. Footballers may have a pair of lucky boots, a cricketer a lucky box (presumably one that has never been needed to fulfil its function) as he prepares to go out to bat. For the football fan, it could be having a drink at an allotted time, at a certain pub with the same mates and leaving at the same time each week to go to the ground.
I am looking for more places to go fishing. A few locations have certainly announced themselves to be visited frequently and these include the canals around Kidderminster. Qualification to tackle dangle here involves enrolling in the Birmingham Angling Association.
I need to get a job. And soon since unless something changes and I start making a regular income that we can live on I’m going to have to go on the game. This may be interesting, but possibly not too lucrative unless huge numbers of lasses like their beaux on the chubby side. Of course what I would rather do is be able to work from home, do my SEO and affiliate marketing stuff and permit myself to use Friday afternoons out by the water with my fishing tackle instead of anticipating a commute home.
A speedy check of my fishing rods has shown a misplacement of a quiver tip which is a little below par. I could of avowed I had at least 1 stored but it appears not. When I go back to the canal side in a few weeks, this is an extra item that will have to be inserted onto the list for purchase at the fishing tackle shop.
I have spent so much time lately working on SEO that I had nearly forgotten about the IT support part of my activities. That was until I visited a factory the other day that was using kit for it’s office admin that was so old, they were having trouble with the software they had recently installed which could not find enough processing power to be able to operate correctly and continually crashing the machine it was working on.
It has become a constant line for comedians, particularly on TV panel programmes, to make a joke of ads saying ‘work at home’ or ‘make money on the internet’. There is a point, there are thousands of such ads and they are very simple to find on sites everywhere. However, they are getting a tarnished name because they promise the world, easy money for little effort and see the cash flood in! Nope, the old saying “if it appears too good to be true, it possibly is” absolutely does apply here since what is not made clear is the same for anybody building a website for anything is that they need to comprehend, or know someone who does, SEO.
I read a Twitter conversation the other day between a couple of lads talking about dreaming and one of them mentioned the oddness of having the radio on after the alarm went off but you’re not really awake. That really lit a spark with me, as I recall some belters I had when I used to have my clock radio and the Today programme came on and I was in that second part of sleep, where you’re not fully asleep but below that stage where you are just emerging to alertness. The radio gets into the ears and what they are hearing gets woven into the dreams and it’s superb.
Many years ago, I knew a fella who used to work for McLaren, the F1 racing team, not the pushchair manufacturers. He did fantastic, very technical stuff to do with the car systems and we would sometimes see him in the pub in Guildford in the summer when there were no races on, or during the off season. He would very soon contradict any notion that his job was in any way a fabulous way to see the world because, as he said, he didn’t see much of it from inside the garage at a grand prix complex. In fact, almost the sole occasion he went out was to pull off the front right wheel of the cars at pit-stop time. I cannot help considering that fishing travel is very similar.
The arctic conditions may be thawing, slowly and it could be getting above freezing for long periods, but the canals continue to be frozen solid, so there’s no need to be looking out the fishing tackle as yet.