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September 2026 Part 1 – Rumble in the jungle!

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Wednesday 2nd sees me at Crookwood peg 9 fishing 10:15 to 1:35(although really only to 1:15 spoiler alert!). I have made the decision to just fish the Chinese paste for the foreseeable future and try different combinations. Today I mixed 50-50 the blue packet and the red ( Old Ghost) with the obligatory jellyfish powder. Tackle was the 0.16mm rig with a Chianti style homemade float with the bulk set 6 inches from a 16 hook, elastic was a green 2.2mm Chinese hollow.

It was raining, that light “wet” rain that seems to get everywhere but fortunately it stopped after about an hour. I didn’t introduce any groundbait, instead just relied upon a half pot of micros and 6mm pellets with a few pellets every put in with the paste. The going was slow, in fact it took me 40mins to get my first bite, a skimmer. From then on it continued to fish hard with bobs on the float but no real bites apart from a further 2 skimmers and a stockie plus a couple of missed bites that may have been liners.

As I was getting towards the end of my paste the float slowly submerged and a lift produced a solid weight that began moving slowly at first before heading towards the far bank. To be honest I thought it was probably a better carp around the 6-7lb mark and after a few minutes got it within netting range, when it finally showed itself I realised I was in trouble as it was more like a 12-15lb common, that when I tried to net it I managed to get it’s head in the net but nothing else, before I could readjust the net it flipped and swam out again. It then headed into the left hand margin (see photo)

The fish managed to get into the under growth and after steady pressure came out only to go straight back in and through the reeds for about three meters. Again I kept steady pressure and just as I thought it had finally snagged me it moved back towards me only to go under the bank at the side of the platform where it stayed, five more minutes of pressure resulted in nothing, so after approx 15 minutes of the contest with the fish I accepted I had lost the fish and it had finally snagged me. As it was so close to the peg I was able to get hold of the line and began to exert steady pressure thinking I was going to either pull free from the snag or snap, only for the carp to suddenly reappear with its head gasping a quick grab of the net and ping the float went slack and the carp slid out of view. Inspecting the rig, the line did not break, the hook did not pull out – the hook snapped at the bend! I thought “Oh dear” or some such equivalent phrase! At which point I packed up!

Following Monday I returned, this time to peg 26.

Tackle was similar although the float was now a homemade rugby ball style and the hook was a heavier gauge 14! Paste was the red and yellow 50-50 mix. Fishing along side the far end of the lilies over a bed of 4mm and micros I was soon getting lots of indications and had a busy session until the paste ran out on the three hour mark. I ended up with a tench of 2-02, crucian of 1-02, two brown goldfish (as opposed to crucians!)2-07 and 2-03,a skimmer of 1lb plus one other, a small roach and 3 carp ranging from 1lb to 1-05. Added to these I was snapped twice, pulled out 4 times and snagged once – the chances you take when fishing close to lilies.

Two days later sees me back, this time at peg 28 towards the end of the bank with open water and no lilies! Fishing 10-1 with same set up as previous visit and same paste mix. Started at 9m (7 section) and began getting skimmers after 15 minutes. However after an hour or so I lifted into a bite and crack my number 6 section snapped about six inches above the female join. I managed to get the pole back within reach and discovered it was a clean break- had it been a new pole as opposed to it being 20+ years old it would have looked like a “manufacture defect”! The remaining piece could not be telescoped so I ended the session fishing 5 sections. Again I had to build the swim but my final tally came to 5 skimmers over the pound (best 1-09) plus 2 under, a tench of 1-11 and a roach. Also had a crayfish drop off on the way in plus pulled out of a fish , probably a carp that took off towards the other bank.

Off to Torquay for a few days so no fishing, back home for a week then off to China!

August 2026 Part 2 (or is that 3?)

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Following my paste post I returned to Crookwood one further time on Wednesday 26th and fished peg 18. For some unknown reason I didn’t take a picture of the peg! Anyway think of it like peg 23 with lily pads on both sides! I decided to fish both far corners of the pads with the same tackle as previously but would introduce groundbait on the right with no pellet and pellet on the left with no groundbait and have two put ins before swapping to the other side, hence rotating the swims throughout the session.

Paste was also changed to a 50-50 mix of the blue packet and No5#(white pack) that filled a large pole pot, to this I added 1.5 pots of water, gave it a quick swirl so the paste was all saturated and then left it while I tackled up. To this I then added a liberal dose of “octopus” powder which is in fact jellyfish powder and kneaded to form a ball of paste that would last the session (10am to 1pm). A big pot of paste does last me about 3 hours.

I kick started the session with a pot of F1 groundbait to the right edge and a half pot of 4mm pellet to the left. Starting over the groundbait the swim started to fizz with the float dancing around before a skimmer produced a positive lift on the bulk and was duly netted. When I went on to the pellet swim it was a lot quieter and it took till about the third rotation to get a bite. Overall the bites came quicker over groundbait but the fish were a smaller stamp. I managed to extract a tench of 2-02 and a bream of 3-02 plus a carp of about 2lb from the left swim while just the one small carp from the groundbait swim. I also had 10 skimmers (roughly 3-7 split) and 2 roach (0-2) for a 16-08 weighed total.

On the face of it the groundbait seems to attract more but smaller fish while the pellet only approach seemed to attract the better quality. The paste change was also interesting as I have now tried three different mixes with the Red No3~ and ~2 mix producing mainly small fish compared to the other mixes. I will continue experimenting and intend to try through the winter with paste also!

Fishing the Chinese Paste UK style!

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I have been experimenting for some time with Chinese paste mixes but before I go further I have to explain that the way paste is fished in China is different from over in the UK. Big differences include using two hooks, having a firmer paste that allows casting, plumbing up using the paste as a plummet plus more. I am going to China later on this year and will do a write up of paste fishing there.

So firstly the paste, if you think we have a wide range of groundbaits then think the same for paste but more so. Paste for varying speeds of break down, for different species(tilapia, carp, black carp, sea fish, crucians, bream…), different flavours within each species, you get the idea! I have stuck to a limited range and experimented within that narrow selection. The paste I have available currently …

As you can see the packets are all in Mandarin so the diagram at the back is helpful as a starting point. Anyway let me show you it in practice. The venue is Crookwood Lake on the Devizes ticket peg 23.

Once I got my box set up I began on the paste preparation.

Left to right, top to bottom – main bulk paste; second paste; mixed in ratio 70/30%; two full pole pots of water added and stirred in then left while I sorted out the rest of my kit. Mix after 15 minutes: Jellyfish powder, this forms a stringy texture to the paste; Jellyfish powder added/sprinkled on; paste after quick mixing and kneading.

In China they use very long floats for paste fishing with rolled lead strip making a form of olivette, the lead strip is trimmed to get the weight correct so the float cocks just at the top of the body, the paste then acts as the weight for the long antenna.

I tend to try and adapt the paste to UK style venues so use two basic rigs- the float used can change but the shotting is the same. First a bulk with one dropper, the second just the bulk.

You will notice the relatively small hook by UK standards for the paste – a 16. Partly because Crookwood is a true mixed fishery so I wanted to see what I could catch on a 16 rather than a 10 or 12 which is usual for paste when it is used mainly for carp. Bait size was roughly a small walnut of paste, feeding a few 4mm pellets in the toss-pot with the paste in the area marked by the lillies.

I began at 10:15 and stopped at 1:25 when the ball of paste had run out. The float was constantly dipping and moving but I ended up with tench of 3lb and 5lb in the net together with a bream of 2.5lb, 5 skimmers and 3 roach. I also had 4 small carp (best 1-04) and two crucians of 12oz and 1-04, these where returned straight away as club rules do not allow carp to be retained in keepnets.

To be honest I probably put too little jellyfish powder on the mix as it was not as stringy as usual but it works. At some point I am going to have a go with a Chinese two hook set up if I find a venue that allows two hooks! Similarly I am tempted to try the paste on a river to see what would happen!

August 2026 Part 1 – One track mind!

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I, in my infinite wisdom, decided as the weather was still baking to be sensible and only go for short periods if at all! Now having made that decision I decided to use the time focusing on one method during any outing. So August 4th sees me head to High Penn with the intention of fishing a feeder with a wafter, however two things stopped that reaching fruition, first I forgot to put the wafters in and secondly I picked up the wrong rod! My intention was to fish the far corner- East bank peg 12 but when I walked around found it was already occupied so opted for peg 10. Setting up the rod I discovered the missing wafters so instead I used some 6mm pellets from the bag of mixed dampened pellets I had taken to use up!

Had a couple of casts before I had a couple of indications finally getting a bite off a rudd of 5oz. Now at this point something began to trouble me – the sound of the line on the retrieve sounded like it was braid. I checked the reel and it seemed to be braid (same colour as my mono line) and I was not sure but seemed to remember that braid was banned. At which point I decided to pack up rather than risk continuing.

Fast forward to the 10th and I arrive at Crookwood with the intention of fishing solely with paste and on the opposite bank to where I fished before. The lake had been closed for maintenance over the weekend and a n excavator was positioned to prevent cars driving up that side. I parked up went to the notice board next to the excavator to see if there was any pegs closed, no notice so I ad a walk and the work had been creating new platforms from iron sheeting and hard core with the sheeting in place but they had obviously run out of hardcore so there were only a couple of pegs fishable in the area I walked. I opted for peg 8 and set up, just about to start and someone came and put a note on the board closing the bank! I asked if they wanted me to move but was told I could stay and act as a guard to prevent anyone going past me! As it turned out the guy was Danny Williamson who had taken over from me as Head coach for the South West many years ago, he came up and had a chat saying more hard core was arriving on the Tuesday and the work would be completed by probably Thursday.

So I began with the paste (a Chinese paste combination that I will do a separate report on!) introducing two balls of crushed expander groundbait the half a dozen pellets every put in with the paste via a toss-pot. Elastic was a green hollow Chinese elastic in 2.0mm probably the equivalent to a 10-12, homemade Chianti style float with a bulk 18 inches from hook with a number 8 dropper six inches away from hook. At this point you are probably thinking that does not sound like a paste rig and you would be right in the conventional sense but I do not follow convention! The rig was in place as the paste used is not like the paste normally found in the bait boxes of others! However more of that at a later date!

The session started slow with none of the usual bubbling that I had experienced before but eventually I began to get some interest and although I only landed a tench of 1-04 and five skimmers I felt that I had learnt a bit. In hindsight I should have realised that the workings over the weekend with the shuttering being driven in would have affected the fish and would possibly account for the slowness of the session, still hindsight is great!

July2026 Part 1 – Phew!

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As previously mentioned I do not seem to cope very well in very hot conditions in this country so the heatwave we have been experiencing has seen me in doors with the curtains closed and fans on for most of the time. However I have ventured out on two occasions, both time to a venue I last visited when Gareth fished a junior match there and as he has just turned 40 that tells you how long ago that was! The venue is Devizes’ lake – Crookwood. It is off the beaten path somewhat and if you can brave the narrow lane with farm vehicles coming towards you it is relatively easy to find.

Tuesday the seventh sees me arrive to find a match taking place! Fortunately the opposite bank was not used and better still in shade! I settled on peg 56 which turned out to be about 4 feet deep at 10m.

I set up two rigs, a catch all rig involving 0.16mm Tornado to 0.14mm hooklength of same to a 16 and a heavier margin rig for next to the bush with 0.20mm to a 14. Floats were both home made, a “chianti” style on 10m taking a number 6 and 3 no 8 shot, the margin rig a BGT1 variant taking 3 no 8.I cupped in three balls of Swimstim green groundbait liberally spiked with micros and a good pinch of 4mm and corn at 10m. Within a minute the swim was fizzing and double maggot produced a lot of ghost bites with the maggot untouched- I suspected small fry chasing the maggot around causing the bite. Eventually I had two small roach, at which point I changed to corn. The float was still dancing around but now when you got a positive bite the fish were larger. I did also try expander that got interest but the fish were slightly smaller. I finished up the 3 hour session with the shade disappearing and a net comprising of 5 roach, 5 skimmers, 2 perch (one of 0-14) a solitary bream of 2-04 and a hand sized mirror carp that was returned immediately as per the rules for a level 6-00.

The following Tuesday I returned to Crookwood fishing peg 53, again in the shade! I Fished 9:15 to approx11:30 with the same approach although I only set up the same rig on the 10m line, ignoring the margins. Once again the introduction of bait turned the swim into a veritable jacuzzi!

For once I had taken my pole bump-bar and after two small roach and a rudd on maggot went on to the corn with the bump-bar allowing me to keep the float accurately over the feed despite the breeze. Expander was tried again and once more produced a slightly smaller stamp of fish. The highlight of the session was my first tench of the season a tinca of 2-04 which along with 10 skimmers (best 1-04) gave another level 6-00 total!

Still not been on the river and will probably wait until the rain arrives but will continue with High Penn and Crookwood in the meantime. I may yet get a hankering to give Viaduct another go!

May 2026 final part- the return to normality!

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So the return from the China excursion sees me catching up with the mundane aspects of life before heading off a week later to the Kennet and Avon at Semington in preparation for the return visit of Clive, aka Sidestream Bob. Main duty was to cut out two comfortable pegs but I managed to fish 10:05 to 14:05 trying a few different things. I was feeding 4mm meat and had not taken any worms or pellet, just maggots and the meat. Tackle was identical to previous visit with a 1g Paster on 0.12mm to 0.10mm and a 16. Two balls of groundbait introduced at 2+2 length and a few cubes of meat loose fed (later started to loose feed maggots) only topping up after any boat went through. Bites were fairly consistent with me ending up with 31 skimmers (best 2-04), 4 perch, 16 roach, 6 gudgeon and two rudd. An hour on the meat produced the best roach of the session at 5oz and a solitary skimmer.

So Monday arrives and Clive texts to say the traffic is bad and he is still 15 minutes away so for me to go ahead and he would join me when he could. I set up in Clive’s swim from the last visit leaving my previous swim for him. I had just finished setting up when Clive arrived, greetings completed I said I would watch for the first hour then start fishing. Clive admitted to being a bit rusty but was soon getting bites over the worm and caster laced groundbait and by the time I started he had got into a more comfortable rhythm. However, the canal was in one of it’s moody days and it was hard work compared to previous visits, nonetheless Clive managed to winkle out a respectable net of 3-14 including a net perch while I could only get 3-04 before two boats killed my action. I ended up with 20 skimmers, 8 roach, 1 rudd, 5 perch, 1 ruffe and 2 gudgeon.

Wednesday sees me go to High Penn for a brief session of 2hours. I had taken the seat-bag and a waggler with just maggots as bait and some left over casters. I settled in to the first swim on the North bank accessing via a fairly steep slope that in wet conditions would be problematic! The fishing was easy although the bank did not suit the seat-bag and despite making a makeshift stone platform it was very uncomfortable. The stamp of fish was generally good and the 21 roach, 31 perch and 2 rudd I estimated at 8-03 given I was doing a weight count in ounces (131oz) along side my fish tally.

Sunday sees me return for a couple of hours in the morning before it got too hot. This time I opted for the first peg on the West bank but took a seat box and pole for a change. Fishing at 10 m with the bulk set at 3 feet from the hook with three droppers below I fished and fed just maggot, no groundbait. The weather was having an effect as the bites were slower in coming but I still managed 18 perch, 7 roach and 5 rudd for approx 4lb.

That ended up being the last session of the month as the high temperatures were not conducive to me going out and fishing! June sees a trip to Meadowlands for a Maggot Drowners match and before then I have booked in to a match at Viaduct for a change of scenery and approach!

Chopped worm my way

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Firstly this is chopped worm fishing for silvers not carp which is a different ball game but that is not to say that my way won’t work for carp. Chopped worm fishing can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be but I am going to outline what I do in three different scenarios- canal, lake and river. Before that -the worms. I now use medium denrobenas as it gives a wider variety of thicknesses but chopped lob worm in the winter can be devastating especially in very clear water.

Canal

This is in respect to normal canals not the deeper canals as found in Yorkshire or the Gloucester canal. I differ in many respects to most who fish chopped worm on a canal

both in terms of tackle and approach. I have two main approaches but both involve the pole, the first when the water is coloured can see me use a float of anything up to 1.5g depending on depth and tow with a long bristle- usually one of my Paster floats, the second when in clear mode (mainly winter) sees me using a 0.4gfloat with a standard bristle – the “Peatmoor”. Line in summer is 0.12mm to 0.10mm, in winter 0.10mm to 0.08mm, hooks are usually 18 or 20 with occasionally going to a 16 in deeper areas. Shotting is bulked with one no8 or no10 dropper(winter).

I do not set up a separate area for the chopped worm, generally I set up a line down the deepest part of the canal starting with groundbait and loose feed, usually not introducing any very finely chopped worm for an hour or more. When introduced it is cupped in on the same line neat (NB I do not wash the worms first) along with the medium it comes in. The thinking here is that the worm juice is soaked up by the medium rather than just being washed away.

The key element of this type of fishing is finding what size/thickness the fish prefer – size matters! I start with about an inch of the head of a thin

worm and if bites are not forthcoming I will use an inch from the middle of the worm before trying the tail segment. I rarely use more than an inch as I find anything longer results in the end being taken without the hook being anywhere near the fishes mouth so a strike at what appears to be a positive bite just results in the worm being pulled of the hook! I will try different thicknesses of worm until I find what the fish prefer.

Fishing the worm can fall into two distinct approaches. Bream and roach I tend to try and keep the worm still, perch I try to give movement by very carefully and slowly dragging the float either against any tow or then with the tow, occasionally lifting just the float out of the water and letting it fall back down. In both cases I tend to be 2-3 inches over depth. Worm on the canal tends to be viewed as a bonus fish approach but I try to use it to maintain catching while also having good chances of picking up bonus fish. One word of caution as regards feeding- I tend to feed the equivalent of two pinches of chopped worm initially and will not introduce any further until bites slow down/cease I then will cup in the same amount and fish that out while expecting fewer bites in winter from the second introduction, after this I will reduce the amount I put in as I find in winter especially it is a case of diminishing returns.

Lake

Tackle is similar but if there is a good head of bream I will mix micro pellets with the chopped worm 50-50, this is handy if on a commercial where they insist on the worms being cleaned first. Again the thinking is that the micros will soak up the worm juices as well as being an obvious attractant for the bream. Generally I will fish it the same way as the canal with the recognition that the depth is likely to be greater and I will try movement even after bream often moving it against the tow. Depending on the depth I will for deeper areas mix chopped worm in with the groundbait especially if there is a lot of tow on the water as I do not want it drifting out of the swim.

River

Depends on the flow! Basically two approaches, chopped worm in groundbait cupped in or bait-dropper used for neat worm. Often the bait-dropper is used after the initial feed as a top up. Floats are anything from 1g to 4g+ depending on flow and depth with line upped to 0.14mm to 0.12mm or 0.10mm in winter hooks anything from a 16 to a 20 depending on size of fish expected. I will try letting the float trot through at speed of flow, then try holding back and letting go and finally holding it dead still to see how the fish want it. Worm size is where it may surprise you – it stays at an inch even when after big fish on the river. I remember a winter league match on the Bristol Avon at Sutton Benger when I was well up the section (may even have won it) and had a bream, an eel over a pound and some perch . The guy on the upstream peg was telling his companion after the match that I was fishing just like him with “a dirty great big worm” but he couldn’t catch anything on it. I did smile to myself as the dirty great big worm was a segment from the middle less than an inch long!

That is my approach to chopped worm fishing, not saying it is right or the best way but it seems to work for me.

March 2026 Part 1- Farewell Bowood

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So far March has been an almost fishing free month with just one visit to the canal on March 4th. Arriving at the Three Magpies I settled 10m past the moorings and cast out the pike rod at 9:50 and started to set up the usual whip. I had just finished plumbing up when the pike float skated across the surface after a couple of bobs and a strike sees a feisty fight and a 6-08 pike in the net by 9:55!

I missed a further run at 11:00 when the hook pulled just as it was getting within netting range and for the rest of the session 11 roach, 11 skimmers 7 perch and 5 rudd for approx 3lb kept me busy until I packed up at noon. Double maggot was the only bait they would look at, singles produced nothing and even worm only produced a solitary roach.

I did not get a further opportunity to go before leaving for Yorkshire for the mother-in-law’s funeral, returning the following Wednesday.I had intended to visit Bowood one last time but with heavy rain and high winds on Thursday and strong winds on the Friday I just didn’t bother! My season at Bowood has been shorter than any previous, 27 visits at an average cost of £8.89 and an average catch of 2-11. I caught more in the first two sessions last season compared with the total for this season. I have decided not to rejoin as the estate management have done nothing to control the spread of weed or rushes nor even replied to an e-mail I sent asking for their future plans to deal with the issues that I laid out for them. Added to that the increasing appearance of cormorants and the otter plus the access have not left me with the desire to partake in another season. Instead I am going to focus more on the rivers which I have neglected plus High Penn lake along with the K&A canal.

Later this month I have two matches coming up, first at the Glebe and the following Saturday at Boddington.

January 2026 Part 2 – a start!

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So Sunday 18th I finally kick myself in to gear and get on the bank! The weather was not great, rivers up and flooding, Bowood chocolate, possible match on canal so I opted to go to Blacklands for a change. I paid my money at Reception and said I would fish peg 13 – my first mistake as they had re-pegged it! So instead of being near the overflow I was now on the opposite side of the island- the furthest point from the car!! As it happened I was the only one on the lake but I stuck with my choice and primed two areas both at 11m, the left hand swim with worm and caster and the right hand with micros. Groundbait is not allowed so loose feed was the order of the day, fishing with a 0.10mm hooklength to an 18 barbless under a 1g Paster.

Bites came straight away with a piece of worm about an inch long and despite a couple of slow periods when I was playing around with different shotting patterns and baits it was a pleasant few hours with 18 roach averaging 3-4 oz, the one in the picture is one of the smallest, 8 skimmers (best 1-04) and 3 perch(10oz best) for a total between 7 and 8lb.

Wasn’t until the following Sunday I got out again this time for the rearranged pike match at Peatmoor. I had missed the first one when everyone blanked as we were in Yorkshire.The plan was to fish two deadbait rods on floats (Bowood style) one with smelt the other with sardine. I fancied two pegs- peg 1 which was right in the top corner that had form in previous years and peg 13 which was on the corner of the bay. I ended up going to peg 1, blanked and only one pike caught – that’s right from peg 13 in the first 10 minutes!

No further visits this month as life got in the way! However on the other side of the world Gareth made is trip to Thailand to fish at AmazonBKK, a predator lake. The rules were lure fishing until midday then bait fishing, but after a couple of biteless hours the guide had a word with the owner and he allowed Gareth to bait fish. The results were over 30 runs, that produced 2 Arapaima (110kg and 30kg) 2 Alligator Gar (12kg and 7kg) 1 Red Tail Catfish (25kg), one snap off and several hook pulls. The alligator gar are notoriously difficult to hook due to their hard tooth beak of a mouth and that was the cause of the missed bites and pulls.

Even as I have been typing this he has been fishing the bass commercial he went to earlier this month and has sent me this!

February is likely to prove interesting as he arrives next week!

December 2025 part 2 – Must do better!

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So after returning from family duties in Yorkshire I headed off to Semmington to fish next to the pump again. The weather had changed from the days of heavy rain and was dry and very sunny so much so I fished from 10:20 to 12:40 when I had to pack up as I could no longer see my float with the sun and glare on the water, having stupidly left my sunglasses in the car! I decided to fish mainly worm and wanted to try out a couple of different shotting patterns and that is what happened apart from a couple of fish on maggot. I was fishing a 1g Blue with and 18 on the 0.10mm hooklength with the shot strung out at the start (proved to be the most productive) while various versions of bulk and droppers were tried as well. Two small balls of groundbait laced with chopped worm were introduced at the start and topped up with a small golf ball size when bites began to slow. The result was 17 roach,5 skimmers, 2 gudgeon and a solitary perch for a modest 3-12.

The following Tuesday sees me at my usual haunt- peg 10 at Bowood, fishing 9:45 to 11:45. Tackle was the usual with the pike rod not getting any attention despite the occasional scattering of fish. Groundbait was just two balls at the start and then loose feed with maggot on the hook.Nine roach, twenty rudd and two skimmers succumbing to my net which took the scales down to 1-10. To add insult as I packed up there was a huge pike strike just off the edge of the platform!

Christmas came and went but Sunday 28th sees me at the Pondtail for a short cold session between10 and 11:35 on the Frenzee waggler. I’ll just say I had a bite and missed it and leave it at that! I had a planned visit to Tunnel Barn Farm on the Monday as it was close to the wife’s friend in Coventry, who I was going to deliver some presents to. Car was packed ready for an early getaway however that all changed when the oven gave a loud bang and ceased working, fuses checked,etc… and it had definitely expired. So quick call to cancel the trip, tackle removed from car and Monday was spent sorting out a makeshift mini-oven and contacting a firm to come and sort us out, of course with it being the festive period it will be the New Year before anything is sorted!

We will see what the New Year brings, Happy New Year !