I’ve been a regular guest at the Caer Beris Manor in Mid Wales ever since it hosted the Angling Writers Association Awards dinner nearly ten years ago. It’s a fabulous country hotel in a spectacular setting, nestling in a loop of the River Irfon just up from its confluence with the Wye....

It’s a little known fact that dinosaurs drove Toyotas which in turn caused the Arctic Circle to head south and engulf the entire Northern Hemisphere. Who’d have guessed that, eh? Perhaps rumours of meteors and volcanic explosions were simply thrown in just to spice up boring nights round the ca...