Treecreeper Competition Winners
Congratulations to Caught by the River readers Ian Huckle, Ivan Wadeson and Anders Kjaergaard, you have won yourselves copies of ‘Juniper’ the new album by Treecreeper. The question was: “What traditional English ardent spirit is distilled using the Juniper berry?”, and the answer is of course, ‘Gin’. Thanks to everyone who entered. See Treecreeper live [...]
To The Greenhouse
22 June 2010 // to the greenhouse
by Tracey Thorn. June This year, for the first time ever, I visited Chelsea Flower Show. An evening event, to which I was invited by a friend who works in PR, meant that I was able to avoid the thronging daytime crowds, and scoot round the whole extravaganza in about an hour. A few random [...]
Nick’s Pics
Chuffed. Words and picture by Nick Small. Back in 2002, we had our first adventure in the subarctic wilderness of Northern Sweden. Taking the hire car we travelled just out of Arvidsjaur (a town fans of Northern Exposure would recognise it as a sort of Swedish Cicely) and followed a rough forest track along the [...]
A Letter From Loch Lomond
From Nicolas Valentin: I thought I would share this one with you ..it happen last week .A good friend of mine decided at last to visit Scotland, alongside him came his father and his son Luke ..I knew some good place on Loch Lomond and told them we had a great chance of catching something [...]
Treecreeper: Album news and competition
20 June 2010 // competition //Music
‘Juniper‘, the new album by Treecreeper, the band fronted by Caught by the River contributor Will Burns is released tomorrow by Trash Aesthetics. The press release says: “After the critical warmth with which their debut album “Grain” was received, brothers Greg and Will Burns have spent the last 3 years basking in rock n roll’s [...]
Blessed Are The Cheese Makers
Apparently, Nature Writing is the new rock’n’roll. I’m certain it is strong enough to withstand such trivialisation but it’s bloody irritating when an art-form that you love and one that you are attempting to understand gets dumbed down for the sake of an ‘angle’. Said story appears in the Times today, and it’s one that [...]
Keep Calm
After our performance in the world cup last night this is especially good advice from Rob Olsen:
Lines Made By Walking
18 June 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers. 13. Story Lines. So here’s the rub: I am trying to write a book. This is the fourth I have attempted in the last few years, after plans for various bestsellers have floundered before the sales reps. Now I’ve been told that fiction would be my thing, so I am writing a [...]
Tim Dee – The Running Sky
Tim Dee – The Running Sky. Review by Ceri Levy. The adage, never judge a book by its cover, is not always true or fair. If I had heeded that warning when I was a kid, I would never have bought T. Rex’s The Slider or Bowie’s Aladdin Sane on my first venture into a [...]
Pond Dippings by Chris Yates
illustration by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Taken from ‘The Fisherman’s Bedside Book’ by BB. Today, the opening day of the coarse fishing season, our baits have been blessed by our patron saint, Chris Yates. Here is a recently finished piece of writing that Chris has very kindly given to us for exclusive publication on this, the most [...]
