2026-09-21 18:16 UTC
@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org @markstos@urbanists.social
Maybe. Although I do look at that map and notice that there are three or four quite substantial bodies of water within one or two miles of his home, so there's something odd about why he was walking six miles to go fishing, and that doesn't suggest to me that it was a pure leisure activity.
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@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org 2026-09-21 20:32
@only_ohm@mas.to The rivers through Sheffield saw heavy industrial use around that time. I suspect he'd have had more luck catching fish in a tree. It suggests to me a pure leisure activity because it was his _favourite_ fishing spot, and because as mentioned the fish that one could recover by having an 8yo walk six miles and fish would be trivial. Do better to have the poor kid look for pocket change.