.......River Misbourne (Misborne)

Flotti and I took a stroll along the banks of the River Misbourne a chalkstream in Buckinghamshire that rises just outside Great Missenden and flows all the way to join the River Colne at Denham. The river is a 'perch' lake according to wiki - a stream, flowing over a bed of impermeable material on top of a porous substrate. This state is only quasi-stable, since in periods of low rainfall the water table drops below the level of the impermeable layer. If ground works are then carried out which damage this layer, the river can sink into the porous substrate and disappear.

Our walk went from Amersham to Little Missenden past Shardeloes a country estate house. A bright sunny day temperatures 22.0C we did see some Mayfly (Danica) coming off the river.

The pic above was taken with a struggling Danica caught in a cobweb and we placed the Sycamore leaf behind to give the shot some contrast and left my fat thumb in for some perspective.

I now know that I am not having a grave or a bench to rot on Redbourn common - I'm having a plaque like this when they let the ashes drift down on the Ver.

The river was enchanting. And on one single stretch of about 250 yards I saw more fish in a chalkstream than I have ever seen apart from the river Test.

A 'guerrilla' raid at about 4.00am one morning is just crying out for these fish!

Nice walk about four miles after which we retired to the Hen and Chickens at Little Hay - a pub we haven't been to for nearly forty years!