I am Stephen. I live in Bristol, UK. I decided to shorten my profile...to this: Wildlife, haiku, travel, streetart, psychogeography and my family. Not necessarily in that order.
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I found it hard to like this. Your haiku was fine. It’s the subject matter. I don’t know the backstory to the photo, but I know there is one. David has talked to me about the semi-recent politics that have killed a lot of the UK’s fishing fleets. Whatever the story… sigh.
The remaining fisherman had ambitions to build his own boat and sail the high seas, but unfortunately fell ill and can neither fish nor realise his dreams. It is sad and sees a trend in a diminishing fishing fleet in some parts of the country, but the story is not untypical. I guess retirement as a fisherman/skipper/owner of a vessel is more visible than other retirements, each of which have their own back story.
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Sad, very sad!
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It is sad, but not unusual either now or historically.
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Yes, I was born and grew up in a fishing village with an estuary that looked just like your photo and fishing had gone by late 1960s
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I found it hard to like this. Your haiku was fine. It’s the subject matter. I don’t know the backstory to the photo, but I know there is one. David has talked to me about the semi-recent politics that have killed a lot of the UK’s fishing fleets. Whatever the story… sigh.
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The remaining fisherman had ambitions to build his own boat and sail the high seas, but unfortunately fell ill and can neither fish nor realise his dreams. It is sad and sees a trend in a diminishing fishing fleet in some parts of the country, but the story is not untypical. I guess retirement as a fisherman/skipper/owner of a vessel is more visible than other retirements, each of which have their own back story.
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