My Grandmother has many wonderful stories of the times when she was growing up on her father's farm at Byford in Herefordshire.

It was in the last Century but not quite a century ago yet it sounds like a very different world. Horses were still used rather than tractors and cars were seen less often than the jet fighters now buzzing low over the same land and rivers.

Her stories painted so many vivid pictures in my young mind and one such was of her playing by the River Wye, which ran past the farm. She would tell me that there was really no need to learn how to tickle a trout, although she could of course, because there were so many trout and salmon that you could just scoop them out. I don't know how much of this was precise recollection and how much was embellished for my fascination, but the video below would hint that much of it was true.