DRIVE-BY SHOOTING

Now, I don’t want to dismiss or trivialise the very real problem of rural crime today, but thankfully drive-by shootings in sleepy south Oxfordshire are still something of a rarity, especially those that involve multiple victims.

However, that’s exactly what I found myself caught up in a couple of weeks ago. And I loved every minute of it.

Yes, of course I’m talking about crop-damaging bunnies, not gang members, and I was cruising the fields of my latest permission and not the streets of downtown LA. I wasn’t alone either – Neil was by my side.

The permission covers more than 300 acres of polytunnels that are filled to bursting with strawberries, raspberries and blueberries in the spring and summer, but at this time of the year, with the crop gathered, the tunnels are mostly empty and are being prepared for