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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 9:53 am Post subject: M-J is back from the Fly Fishing Championships...

...with a silver medal for Wales.

Would have loved to have won gold - but the English team was an unstoppable force.
The Scottish team won the bronze.

Having fished in a boat every day from 9am to 5pm for the last week I'm shattered...and am still in my pyjamas today at 11am.
When I close my eyes I'm still rocking back and forth.
My face is brown from my nose down, but white above - it's a most peculiar look.

Back to work on Tuesday.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 9:55 am Post subject:
Longifarchiadau!

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 5174
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 9:56 am Post subject:
Well done (I'm still in my PJs too, if that helps?)

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 9:59 am Post subject:
Thinking on, I'm quite glad I'm not a fish. I bet the judges were bamboozled by the clip-board manouevre. You've missed a couple of good celeb. deaths, by the way: Jeff Conaway and Gil Scott-Heron.

Faithmead

Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Posts: 1228
Location: Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire border

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:03 am Post subject:
Oh well done you. Fantastic. NEXT year... it'll be GOLD M&D xx

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:03 am Post subject:
Well done - congratulations .....(and RIP Janet Brown)

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:04 am Post subject:
Yoohoo congratulations. Was it really windy 'cos if so that's even more brilliant!

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
Posts: 2677

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:09 am Post subject:
well done you

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:12 am Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

Was it really windy 'cos if so that's even more brilliant!

Windy? That's an understatement, it was practically a Force 10 gale all day.

We'd had really good weather all week for all the practice days - but on the day of the competition the wind was howling across the water, horizontal rain and huge waves. You could hardly get a line out at times. I had a very wet bottom when I came in at 5pm. Even the super-duper waterproofs couldn't keep us dry in those conditions.

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:15 am Post subject:
Well done dear Whoop whoop!

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 7280
Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:30 am Post subject:
Well Done, silver is a great start so i'll pencil you in for winning gold next year?

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:32 am Post subject:
Congratulations! a fantastic result

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 10:55 am Post subject:
Yay! Got your sensible shoes yet?

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 11:01 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

Yay! Got your sensible shoes yet?

Hoping the official photos in uniform won't be too bad, although there were a number of comments from within the team that some of us look like men in drag in the tartan skirts...

Some of the girls would like plain black trousers (which I agree with) so I suggested that we cut up the skirts and make them into waistcoats instead, which everyone thought was a good idea. We just need a good seamstress to do them for us (paid of course).

"Katieowl..."

Chickem

Joined: 27 Mar 2009
Posts: 3958
Location: Sunny Devon

Posted: Sat May 28, 11 11:45 am Post subject:
Well done M-J

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