# dever (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dever. Page: Feed: --- ## [When the Moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/07/when-moon-is-in-seventh-house-and.html) _2026-07-03 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ Well what a weed cut that was. The June weed cut is historically the heaviest, but this was the heaviest I have experienced for a few years. In April we had weed, but because the weather and water were cold, I took the decision just to tickle a few bits up. You will remember that in May we had a late frost, the river was still quite cold and the weed was in soporific order. You may also remember,… ## [Marvin Gaye and the Plug Pixies meet AI](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/05/marvin-gaye-and-plug-pixies-meet-ai.html) _2026-05-28 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ To quote Marvin Gaye, What's going on (What's going on) Yeah, what's going on (What's going on) Tell me what's going on (What's going on) I'll tell you, what's going on (What's going on) Right on, baby, right on. Half way through May and we get three frosts that hammered my allotment. On the third Saturday of the month we had ice on the windscreen of the car, on the fourth Saturday of the month… ## [General Consensus and his work with Lemmings](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/05/generla-consensus-and-his-work-with.html) _2026-05-11 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ To quote the great Dolly Parton, Here we go again. I think you mean “ Here you come again” – ed No matter, I’m confident Dolly would have uttered the missive at some point in her long life. Anyway, coming or going again, the point I was trying to make is that the amount of water currently flowing down this valley is the same as this time last year. The general consensus among the proletariat, is… ## [Stout Cortez and a Beard of Bees](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/04/stout-cortez-and-beard-of-bees.html) _2026-04-20 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ HO! (After Plum) Back on the river and the trout fishing season is now begun. Nothing to do with me, but the river is in good shape. Pristine gravels, plenty of fish, a few good hatches of hawthorn and verdant weed growth in places that I shall attend to next week. The hat is on three hairs, plus the lark’s on the wing the snail upon the thorn and for those of a religious bent, whichever god you… ## [Proper Space and the Farce of Artemis](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/04/proper-space-and-farce-of-artemis.html) _2026-04-10 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ Remember this? Madam and myself back in the day, I’m the one on the left, sans instrument, the reason why will become clear later in the piece. The standard proclamation of this house to signify that we have been gadding about again in the name of living for pleasure alone since child A and Child B left home. Milan and Cremona this time. Milan because we’ve flown into it several times before… ## [The Lady of the Stream gets Jiggy and Monty Don's Gonads](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-lady-of-stream-gets-jiggy-and-monty.html) _2026-03-26 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ Wehaaay! We have grayling spawning. No pictures available as yet but will persevere with idiot proof camera. I was showing another prospective rod and subsequently the latest addition to the waiting list, around one sunny afternoon last week and there were half a dozen grayling of around a pound getting jiggy on the top shallows. Completely oblivious to our obvious presence they flirted around for… ## [Plague, Pike and an Imminent New Arrival](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/03/plague-pike-and-imminent-new-arrival.html) _2026-03-17 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ Apologies, not another hiatus but a brief period of the plague. Two and a bit weeks ago I started to go a bit funny, had a body temperature of thirty nine and a half degrees and briefly spoke in tongues. After a forty eight hour period of coughing and struggling to breath properly, Madam contacted NHS111 online and an hour later I was on the phone to a medico. The conclusion drawn was that I… ## [Water Water, Celine Dion and a Boy with Heavy Bones](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/02/water-water-celine-dion-and-boy-with.html) _2026-02-11 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ Erm, what to write? Apologies, did I say that out loud? Well you can see by the photos that it has been raining a lot, with the sun seemingly on a sabbatical. It’s quite remarkable (After David Coleman) that having endured the lowest river levels in recent memory less than five months ago, we are now where we are with Spring Bottom bursting forth and decidedly soggy river banks. Increasing… ## [ELP, Samples and a Dog called Dougal](https://testvalleyriverkeeper.blogspot.com/2026/01/elp-samples-and-dog-called-dougal.html) _2026-01-28 · noreply@blogger.com (Test Valley River Keeper) · Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire_ Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends we’re so glad you could attend step inside, step inside. That’s right, Back! Back! Back! Well sort of, because we never really went away, just maintained a self enforced silence. After a lengthy period of uncertainty over the future of this place and concerns over whether a prospective new owner would want an online “gobshite” as an employee, a…