Prince George will “learn how to fly fish at Balmoral” when the Cambridges visit over the summer. William and Kate are keen that George might be able to start practicing fishing on the banks of the River Dee, next to Balmoral, where an abundance of trout and occasional salmon are caught.
LINK (via: The Scottish Sun)
“George, you will do your flyfishing and like it! It is your Royal Duty!
“Shan’t!”
Here is the Tiggy mentioned in the Sun article now, appearing in a recent British tackle and clothing retailing brand’s Covid’s killing All of Us videocast about the state of the Atlantic salmon and the “brave choices” that need to made (a.k.a. “Set the ghillies on them – kill the lot of them!) about their “demned”, just making a living as we’ve always done fellas, furred and feathered predators.
https://www.facebook.com/farlowsuk/videos/live-session-11-atlantic-salmon-trust-update/317493172609498/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
Some of us Brits still do.
[Note: Quote above is L.P. Hartley’s opening line in his fine 1953 novel, The Go-Between – well worth finding and taking a look at the old Julie Christie – Alan Bates – Pinter-Losey 1971 film of the book]