3 April 2016 News/Editorial
I want to say a bit about this Tweedbeats website this week, but before we get to that……..
It seems like yesterday, but more likely 6 or 7 years ago, kind and generous friends asked us to a live “I’m sorry I haven’t a clue” in a theatre in Sunderland, with the incomparably deadpan Humph in the chair.
As part of his preamble, introducing Sunderland and its history to the worldwide BBC radio audience, Humph said:
“ The author Lewis Carroll was a regular Sunderland visitor and set sail from there on his journey to China. Carroll’s inspiration for the name “Wonderland” came when he heard the word “Sunderland” and simply substituted the first letter.
Luckily he wasn’t going to Nanking”
“ The intrepid BBC reporter, Kate Adie was brought up in Sunderland. Miss Adie was present at the storming of the Iranian Embassy, the invasion of Iraq, the bombing of Tripoli and three Turkish earthquakes. When she returned to Sunderland to launch a ship, the crew shot an albatross for luck”
The scorer, the lovely Samantha, a figment of all our imaginations and well used to such jocular nonsense, would have approved.
The same Samantha of whom Humph reported “ Samantha is a qualified croupier and often works at an exclusive Soho club where gamblers pay top money to play roulette all day and poker all night” and then again “Samantha is off on a dinner date with a gentleman friend from Moscow who’s brought over a variety of caviars and an array of vodka based aperitifs. She says he’s going to offer her delicious food in his hotel room and then liquor out on the balcony”
All of which is by way of holding your attention long enough to tell you that the Tweedbeats website has changed….and is changing. Sea trout scores are now accommodated daily both on the Fish Catches page and on each individual beat’s page, in daily total on the Home page.
There are new buttons/links, top right on ALL pages, for Tweed Foundation donations, for Instagram (of which more later as it gets going) and for Twitter. There is also the Mailing List (bottom right) through which via your e-mail address you will get Fishing Alerts, the same day as any new fishing availability comes on (we don’t issue a Newsletter, even if it says we do!).
We are still trying to get the Water Levels page to be more user friendly, not helped by inconsistent data feeds from SEPA, and may start to trial a wholly bespoke system of our own, but that will take time and will no doubt have problems of its own
We continue to spend money on the site every year to make it better, but if there is anything it doesn’t do which you think it should, please e-mail info@tweedbeats.com to let us know?
And, finally, from Humph….
“ Samantha has to go now as she is off to meet her Italian gentleman friend who’s taking her out for an ice cream. She says she likes nothing better than spending the evening licking the nuts off a large Neapolitan.”
Sadly no longer with us, Humph would have delivered this with a slightly appalled (pretending to hate his script writers for forcing him to say such terrible lines) yet mischievous vestige of a smile, even in his later years relishing in his imagination, as only a perpetual schoolboy can, the shocking effect such wicked, (barely) double entendre, lines would have had on his long gone, distinctly upper class, prim and proper, maiden aunts and other elderly relations.
Now, what was all that about the Tweedbeats website?
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