Wherever fieldsports are practiced, they’re celebrated with fairs, shows and exhibitions. These out of season attractions are a terrific place to compare and purchase kit, discover new venues, and meet new and old companions in the field.
The winter of 2013/14 will be remembered for fierce storms and incredible flooding (unless February and March hold more crazy weather)…
Eagle-eyed blog visitors and regular outsidedays.com users may have noticed (and lets face it, it would have been hard not to) a conspicuous absence from the www world and uncharacteristic silence over the past five months.
Another season closes in the UK and I think one word sums it up: WET. Right from the get go we should have known it was going to be one of those years. The glorious 12th became the thrilling 13th with the way Sunday fell. It should have been obvious that any season starting on […]
Are your rifle, gun and rod gathering dust? Fear not. With an email or a phone call you can enter a season of great sportfulness. There’s fishing on southern chalkstreams from infamous like the Test and Itchen to more obscure waters like the Piddle and Ebble. Or maybe pulling the trigger 500 times in a […]
All clients are created equal, but the ones on the Outside Days Mailing List get offered sport first. In our 24-7 365 day world of blogging, tweeting and emailing, the List is the best way of reaching most of you without joining the spamming hordes. It gives us the opportunity to offer you deals from […]
One of the things we pride ourselves on here at Outside Days is customer service. Okay, I hear you chortle, it often comes with a measured dose of my humour, soup and a sausage roll. But as we’ve grown, wherever possible, its come with me. In 2010 that became impossible. Because the cloning industry seems […]
Before you start shaking your head about the cost of foreign travel (never mind sporting holidays) and cleaning your weapons in preparation for mothballing, have a look at Outside Days out of season sporting breaks. After all, I didn’t get a can of WD40 for my birthday because I am a frivolous spendthrift. Texas No. […]
Well, its finally happened. After years of leg-pulling, stick-giving, and micky-taking at my beloved clients’ expense, one of you has finally gotten your own back. And oh so publicly, too. Talented satirical cartoonist Andy Sipson got his revenge with an image on his Facebook page. Andy, his father, and the coffee table with legs he […]
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 […]