It’s never too late…

With the new season upon us, I am grateful for the trickle of shooting invitations arriving in the post. However, amongst those I received, I was surprised to get an invitation from an old friend to shoot with him in November in Surrey where he had taken a day. I was more than pleased to receive the invitation to shoot as it served to remind me how my friend, who at the age of 60 had just taken up the sport, was now issuing me with an invitation to join him.

Tom was a publisher and a partner in a successful, long-established publishing firm in the West End of London. He had many attributes but could hardly be called a sportsman. He neither fished nor played golf, never touched a tennis racquet or cricket bat, and used his time when he came to stay with us mainly to read from a pile of books he brought with him, which I suppose one would expect