Country Diary

In January 2020, when the year was still young, our shooting season was in full swing and any dark clouds on the horizon were nothing more portentous than a brisk passing rain shower, I found myself on a peg with a towering, shaven-headed continental gentleman who had never fired a shot on a driven shoot in his lifetime.

Theor, my responsibility for that day, is the Dutch brother-in-law of Giles, the avuncular and eccentric