You're bringing me down
You stood and you watched as
My baby left town"
The grand patriarch of all fishing guide books is Isaac Walton's mid-17th century tome The Compleat Angler. If you fish, thoughtfully, you know this book. One of the chapels at Winchester contains Walton's tomb, and the fly-fishing federation of Great Britain (whatever it is called), has endowed and decorated it.
"Oh-bo-de-o-do oh-bo-de-o-do
Oh-bo-de-o-do de-do-duh"
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Altar in the "Walton" chapel: nice neolithic water symbol, tying (!) things together for us; the pews are carved in beautifully rippled surfaces |
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Walton's tomb |
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Stained glass piece from the Walton chapel |
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Especially for lunkers; actually the caption is, "I swear, he was THAT big!" |
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Oh, yes, Winchester also contains the tomb of Jane Austen (please, no comments about my prejudices or sensibilities) (nyuk-nyuk-nyuk) |
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