I consider myself a bit of a social media baron on the quiet, as those of you reading this on Facebook or Twitter or Linkedin can attest. And I am a fully paid up subscriber to Norton’s products in addition to an external hard drive as prophylactic belts and braces. RSS news feed Newsletter / [...]
February 17, 2011 – 10:35 am
I make no apologies for dusting off this old chestnut and republishing. When the loonies, kooks and crazies stop asking questions that would require the publication of numerous volumes to answer, I’ll leave this one in the archive. Until then… Subtitle: The Things I Really Need to Know to Make Your Day Work We start [...]
By Howard
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Also posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Tagged booking agent, Driven, driven pheasant, grouse, Hebrides, outer hebrides, pheasant, Shooting, sporting agent, woodcock
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September 19, 2010 – 5:04 pm
As connoisseurs of game fairs, we’re quite selective about the ones we attend, let alone take a stand at. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
Subtitle: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Over the seasons many of you have commented on the patience…okay, sainthood, of No.2. The following is only bound to confirm this view of her. Three springs ago, I packed my bags and took a client to Kaytor Peaks on the south island of New [...]
February 28, 2010 – 5:00 pm
Subtitle: The Things I Really Need to Know to Make Your Day Work We start booking shooting for one season before the previous season closes, and are in full swing planning for the season to come by the time March becomes lamb-like. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Also posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Tagged booking agent, Driven, driven pheasant, grouse, Hebrides, outer hebrides, pheasant, Shooting, sporting agent, woodcock
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October 22, 2009 – 8:19 pm
How do you answer when a shooting friend asks, “What are you doing this weekend?” Is it that long-awaited (okay, fantasy) invitation to take his place in the butts for a double gun day on the grouse? Or a chance to sit next to his mother-in-law for Sunday lunch? In this case, it was a [...]
September 14, 2009 – 9:00 am
In the lull between grouse and partridge, No. 2 has taken advantage of my height for a bit of hedge-picking and scrumpying to fill the larder for the coming winter. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Tagged Autumn, blackberry jam, chutney, Fruitfulness, partridge, rhubarb, rosehip, Shooting, Sloe, sloe gin, sloes, syrup, tomato, tomato pickle
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September 3, 2009 – 7:00 am
The best piece of canine wisdom I have been given is that the time to train your dog is the off season: using it during the season is more likely to undo training than perfect it. That said, what with trips to Texas, South Africa, and beyond clogging the first months of the off season, [...]
By Howard
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Tagged clumber, Clumbers, cocker spaniel, dog, grouse, lab, partridge, pheasant, retrieving, spaniel, spaniels, Springer spaniel, training
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By the start of August, fluffy week old chicks have morphed into stroppy teenagers, ready for putting to wood. After all, in five weeks time the partridge season opens, and in 11 weeks the pheasant season starts. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Also posted in Driven Shooting, Walked Up Shooting
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Tagged conservancy trust, covey, farming methods, foxes, game and wildlife, gamekeeper, genetic diversity, old chicks, partridge, pheasant, pheasant season, poults, predation, wildlife conservancy
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