Day 25: The one that got away!

Mood: Very relaxed
Music: Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

Today started late! I slept in until gone nine and then sauntered downstairs to breakfast.. After that I arranged to go fly fishing later in the day (5pm) and then set about doing as little as possible for the rest of the day.

Plenty of reading the internet (the register / bbc news / facebook) later it was lunch time. After lunch I read one of the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) magasines that I've been toting around with me. That took up a fair bit of the afternoon and included a rundown on the options facing those trying to rescue the Chilean miners (printed while they were still in the ground obviously). I've only 3 more of them left so I think I'll play on my DS the next time I'm stuck for things to do to avoid running my options down further.

As announced on Facebook, I've now read all of the books I have with me (The Art of War, 1984, Animal Farm, Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange) and have taken a large number of suggestions of what to get brought out to me when I get to Singapore!

This evening I got to go fly fishing. It was quite uneventful although very enjoyable. I'm now pretty good at casting although I struggle when the wind gets up, the strongest bites I got were in quick succession one after each other and at that time I wasn't ready to strike to catch the fish. The only one that did bite and I got hold off, managed to wriggle free wen it go to the surface. I'm sure it was only 8 to 10 inches long but I was told it was bigger than that else it wouldn't have gone for the fly I was using.

I'm pretty glad that I didn't catch anything as it is quite well known how much I like live fish!

That, pretty much, was my day. It was nice to chose not to do anything at all, just to sit in the warmth looking out on the baking hot sunshine outside. Tomorrow is another early one, although I've got to go sort out with the hotel when I'm being picked up.