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The lie of the lunde

MUCH AS I LIKE TO pretend that I do this work all the time, I also have a part-time office job. It’s still working within the land management sector but is far more paper and computer based than a day on the hill, something that has taken a while to get used to.

When I started gamekeeping I never really understood the attraction of standing around at the edge of a wood, shotgun and rifle at the ready on the off chance a fox would appear, while rain, wind and snow — as is usually

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