HISTORY does not relate what the exact circumstances were but at some point during the Second World War, while serving as an officer in the Green Jackets of the Rifle Brigade, my late grandfather James Ramsden came into possession of a German...
WHIPPERS-IN are the cowboys of our countryside; they live in the same world of horse sweat, leather oil and cordite. They work very long days for low wages among the animals they depend on for their livelihood. And, just like cowboys, they are...
RECALLING exactly when you first set eyes on your house, your spouse or even a grouse is to be expected but I am slightly taken aback that I can clearly remember my first sighting of a breed of dog. So beautifully coloured and stunningly glossy...
THE ANNUAL gathering of the fieldsports world has arrived once again. The stage is set, and from 24-26 July tens of thousands of rural sorts will descend on the Capability Brown-designed parkland of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire to...
