Browsing

  When I was growing up in the early seventies it was still not unusual to use sparrows as your first quarry with an air rifle; I was more fortunate than most because I also had access to a set of pig sties where rats abounded and the very occasional mouse survived. I still shot [...]

My first ever shot with a shotgun was at a hare in South Wales; ever since I have rarely missed an opportunity to eat hare.

There are few birds more handsome than those of the crow family. The magpie is particularly striking, with the contrast between ‘black’ and white making it one of the most recognisable of all British birds. It is perhaps only when you find yourself with a tame magpie, such as this one

I was born in Knowle West, Bristol in September 1956; my Dad was in Egypt thanks to the Suez Crisis; Mum was staying with her parents. My earliest memories were of the flat in Bellamy Avenue that I lived in for nearly ten years from the age of eighteen months; the gardens were full of [...]