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Posted by Penny Taylor on
Friday, 3rd of February 2012 • Full article
WE'RE still playing catch-up with the ferreting after losing nearly a month due to the snow, and I felt quite guilty when I looked at a certain piece of land, sown early with barley but now resembling a well-used football pitch. In other words, barely a green blade in sight for nearly 100 metres out into the field.
Posted by Mervyn Jones on
Monday, 24th of October 2011 • Full article
AT last the boys could go ferreting and we were heading off to a farm close to my home for a day catching rabbits. I’d had a brief foray a few days before and had caught ten rabbits in three hours before I checked the next couple of warrens which looked well occupied. We should be in for a special day.
Posted by Penny Taylor on
Monday, 24th of October 2011 • Full article
WE were asked to sort out some rabbits over the weekend in country where the habitat favours the indigenous residents, not the hunter! When you see nice large fields surrounded by bramble-filled woods your heart tends to sink a little, as the rabbits are always well spread out beneath the brambles.
Posted by Derek Davidson on
Thursday, 23rd of June 2011 • Full article
EARLY on a Saturday morning some time ago my friend Stuart phoned because he was worried. He had left early for a walk with his dogs over the fields as he often does and ten minutes before returning home the little tykes had put their noses to the ground and took off, yelping as they went.
Posted by Penny Taylor on
Thursday, 23rd of June 2011 • Full article
THERE can’t be many adult humans alive today who haven’t at one time or another suffered from a bad back. In fact, more working hours are lost through this affliction than by most other illnesses, a sad state of affairs which has just as much to do with our lifestyles as the fact that we walk upright.
Posted by Penny Taylor on
Thursday, 31st of March 2011 • Full article
I’M so pleased that Mr Nichols wrote in to The Countryman’s Weekly to put readers straight on the dangers of feeding chocolate to dogs, though he omitted to say exactly what we should use as an emergency measure when blood sugar levels run low.
Posted by John Glover on
Thursday, 31st of March 2011 • Full article
BULL-blooded lurchers are controversial, exceedingly popular and robust and their ancestors probably went into war with the Romans or, at the very least, fought in gruesome contests against other unfortunate, helpless victims.
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