Where The Fishes Live
On the busy,brightly coloured park that is jam packed with families making the most of a sunny day is a path that leads down to the river and if you look carefully in the fence surrounding the river is a gap....
If you squeeze through the gap ( yep as old as Iam I can still squeeze through gaps as if I were seven) you enter the place where the fishes live.
It's quite a adventure down there!The water gushes past and there is not much room between the edge of the wall and that fast flowing water but you need to carry on walking
When you get to this wall you carefully plonk yourself down and sit and wait for fishes!
If you stay still enough the fish will come!
How do I know this....?
Because when I was a little girl this is where I used to fish.
Hours spent next to this patch of water,watching and waiting for fish.They were sticklebacks,tiny darting fish that had sharp spines that stuck into your hands when you tried to scoop them up.You knew that you may get spiked but the gain of catching a fish was always worth the pain of the spikes!
I can remember carrying the fish back home in a bucket and my dad telling me off
"They will never live out of the river" he would say
And he was right,they never did.
And try as I might I could never keep those sticklebacks alive for more than a day or so.
Not often I go to that park now but what a treat for me when I took Chips and we went adventuring to the place where the fishes live.
I'm linking this up to Jaimes Magic Moments and also popping it in my Add A Memory box so that the boys can see the place where their mummy used to go fishing,many moons ago,when she was a little girl.
What a lovely memory! I can remember fishing for Stickle Backs in the Brook near where we lived when I was small. Popping over from Magic Moments
ReplyDeleteHi!Someone else who remembers sticklebacks then!My sons face was a picture when he saw them darting about in the river,it was a truly lovely thing to do x
DeleteThat's so wonderful! What a lovely experience to be able to share with your boys. No doubt they'll share it with their children too. Love it! :) xx
ReplyDeleteEvening Vicky,it was a great thing to be able to do and it made me seem like the great adventurer!Mummy roolz!It bought back many happy memories too.Thanks for stopping by x
Deletethis is beautiful, what a fantastic post :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up with #magicmoments xxxx
Thank you Jaime,this was what I tweeted you about on Friday.I sat on the wall and said to my son ''This is a Magic Moment!'' Mad but true :-) xxxx
DeleteI loved doing this on holiday. Just sitting waiting for the fishes. Sounds like its an extra special place for you x
ReplyDeleteHi Tas :-) Yes there is a certain peaceful feeling when you wait for the fish to come.And the place WAS extra special for me.Just a scrappy place to most people but to me it was very special xx
Deletesuch a lovely post! #magicmoments
ReplyDeleteThank you :-) I love this linky,when you have got kiddiewinks magic moments are never to hard to find are they!Kids ARE magic! x
DeleteLovely. I'm sure it feels great to be able to bring your kids somewhere that you used to go and share your stories and experiences.
ReplyDeleteEvening Rebecca :-) Its a really fab feeling to revisit childhood haunts and show them to your children ~ you have all this to come! x
DeleteHow lovely! Great that you can share these childhood memories with your kids. I think kids forget we were children too once and used to do fun things like them!
ReplyDeleteHee,exactly Sarah!And there's a certain age where kids still think that you are heroes and luckily I have still got one at that age!I think he was truly impressed that mummy could still squeeze through fences!Mind you,so was I!It could have gone either way really and what colour would my face be if they had had to call the fire engines...mind you there would have been firemen then...right I think I had better stop this train of thought straight away! x
DeleteWhat a brilliant post, this place looks fantastic :)
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Evening Charly!Thanks so much for your lovely comment.I like this spot because its off the beaten track and not many people go there so its so private and peaceful and of course it holds many memories for me,oh and I have the funniest feeling that it is MY private fishing spot!Daft but true! X
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