old_toys
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it seems i get a far better nights sleep when i'm a dreaming angler.
Happy New Year All
Happy New Year All
Happy New year
And going fishing in the morning, who needs an alarm. Only time my inner alarm goes off before the physical one does, when I go fishing. though these days I NEVER set any gal dang stupid alarm
You know, except for the little thing about the Davey lamp not be waterproof.My Dad was a coal miner and used to tell me the story of one of his fellow miners. They all picked up their Davey lamp from the lap room, and returned them when they got back to the surface. A quick look would tell if all the miners had returned from the coal face. One miner's lamp was often missing, but everyone knew he'd gone fishing. He'd lower his lamp into the river, attracting an unsuspecting trout. A tickle under the belly, and the trout was whisked out of the water.
Only if you insert it too low in the water, below the top of the chimney. FWIW I had that Davey lamp for many years, until I passed it along to my son a few years ago..You know, except for the little thing about the Davey lamp not be waterproof.
Aye, true you didn't say underwater, only into the river.Only if you insert it too low in the water, below the top of the chimney. FWIW I had that Davey lamp for many years, until I passed it along to my son a few years ago..
Aye, true you didn't say underwater, only into the river.
That Wiki article is only party correct:
Here's a couple of photos of Dad's Davey lamp, currently at my son's home. Note that the lamps were individually numbered (his was #25). The lamp sat in Dad's home for many years in its condition the day he retired from the mines. One day he proudly showed me a clean/bright lamp; A friend had offered to buff it and Dad had agreed. I was a little disappointed that he/we lost the original condition. There are countless clean/bright fakes for sale in the gift shops around Wales.My Dad retired from the coal mines before I was born, thanks to pneumoconiosis (sp?) aka black lung disease, and started a new career.