Comments on: The Quest, Part II: Subversion & Solutions

By: billy the gillie

billy the gillie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:28:43 +0000

brill idea,now where is that last partridge feather.TOP DRAWER MIKE.

By: Tamanawis — Of vests and man-bags

Tamanawis — Of vests and man-bags — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:39:33 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:19:58 +0000

As a bit of an epilogue to this saga, I was in Ikea yesterday, and I tried to get to the bottom of this thing. It turns out the ‘Grossby 10 compartment storage box’ was a ‘seasonal’ item, which Ikea only get in occasionally as a kind of ‘tester’. I asked if they were getting more in, and the chap said ‘probably not…’ This doesn’t mean the end, of course, it just means we must look ever harder in our quest for more Cubes. The same chap said to me that if there were any around, they’d be in Area C of the warehouse part, or in ‘Home and Storage’ in the Market Floor part.

Good luck!

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:45:06 +0000

Sorry for the delay Alistair – I had to ask the question and it appears we don’t do day tickets for the brook.

Phil

By: Sheena

Sheena — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:32:49 +0000

Hi , yes SFD were all ears and have been looking at your site. I have even sent it to a few of my friends too. Who. ELFA.
Keep up the good blog its a hoot. Can someone find the product number of the cube of domination then we can all order it. If you are in Birmingham South all you have to do is e-mail & you might have a date.
I have some nice wrapping paper with wet flies on it that would cover it a treet.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:45:27 +0000

Sounds great Phil – any chance of a day ticket on the Pettiford Brook – I travel to Brum now and again to visit family and maybe the odd time it would be nice to wet a line for a few hours !

Alistair

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:39:57 +0000

Hello Alistair

The SFD club to which I referred has two stocked lakes with rainbows and browns at Great Alne in Warwickshire, plus a stretch of the River Alne (chub like a fly) and a stretch of Pettiford Brook nearby with wild browns: all about 30 minutes drive from where I live in south Brum. And we make trips to the Dee and the Wye.

Reports of salmon in Gas Street Basin always seem to coincide with chucking-out time and are rarely confirmed.

Phil

By: Alistair

Alistair — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:22:42 +0000

Hey Phil – where do you manage to do a spot of fly fishing in Birmingham?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:35:14 +0000

Hi Phil,

thanks a lot for dropping by and making a comment. I don’t know why Ikea are talking like that… My pal personally SAW the Grossby boxes in the Edinburgh Ikea last week, somewhere just as you go into the ‘warehouse’ bit. Keep trying!!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:21:04 +0000

Hi Mike

I love the site and FARTS merits a Nobel!

Here in Birmingham the Wednesbury IKEA denies all knowledge – and so does the Edinburgh branch when phoned.

What shall I do? I must have the Cube! This way madness lies.

As the Master (John Gierach) writes, “this may be one of those winters when all the flies actually get tied.” But I’m stymied by lust for the Cube, which was the talk of Solihull Fly Dressers last Monday night.

Looks like I’ll have to try to make one – something else to get in the way of actually tying flies.

Tight lines

Phil