On Taupo Pond

Sucking the marrow out life isn’t quite as easy as it seems: “I once sat for a whole day fishing on New Zealand’s Lake Taupo, enjoying the sunshine and the superlative smoked salmon … pretending to be Ernest Hemingway … in a matter of minutes I had reeled in an 18in trout. He was beautiful.” Problem: “No sooner had the fish looked me in the eye, I wanted to be its friend … pass time together, talk about things in common … I threw him back in.”