Welcome!
This site meanders through fly-fishing and beautiful thinking ("Eunoia"), and at times celebrates wild places. I am a mountaineer turned fly fisherman. My home waters are the streams and rivers of North Wales and in particular the Welsh Dee and its tributaries, where I spend some of my time thinking, and when I am lucky, not-thinking. 
These pages are my small contributions to fishing and thinking. One of the angling greats, G.E.M. Skues, published a book called "The way of a trout with a fly". The word "way" implies a journey, a process of turning potential to actual, worlds within worlds.
I am a Biologist and a Historian of Science by university training, moved onto financial management, and am now refreshing my higher education with a degree course in Mathematics.
The site pays tribute to the philosopher Dr A A Luce who wrote a book called "Fishing and Thinking", hence the strap line. Fly fishing is a contemplative practice which allows for the exercise of beautiful thinking (Eunoia), simplicity and slowness, in a world where we are all at pace, busy consuming products and experiences. There is a danger that we live not in the present but in the future pluperfect.
It was Henry David Thoreau who said "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after".
Thanks for looking in.
