He does more of the latter now, perhaps because the cadence of fly-fishing--the rhythmic casting and drifting of the fly--connects him to his blacksmith days and hammers home his main conviction: Means matter more than ends.
This makes it a lot easier to divide things if a relationship ends and arguments over possessions are one of the main reasons why couples land up in court.
But the writer ends by saying that it may be Kenneth Clarke rather than Cameron who has Tony Blair's main gift - of being able to reach beyond core party supporters to the wider electorate.
And my main hope right now is, is that he and his family are able to move on and that this ends up being a single side note on what has otherwise been an extraordinary career.