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RICHARD NEGUS IS A PROFESSIONAL HEDGE LAYER AND WRITER. HE IS A KEEN WILDFOWLER AND HAS A PASSION FOR GREY PARTRIDGES
The harvest festivals of childhood memory were important affairs. A pair — or in bumper years, a quartet — of finger-trapping trestle tables were erected alongside the altar rail in the parish church. These counters groaned under the weight of farm, garden and allotment produce.
Glistening marrows the size of seal pups, apples, potatoes, beets and a myriad other assorted parts of nature’s bounty were stacked. This produce, once blessed, was destined to feed the local elderly, imprisoned in their care homes. The harvest festivals of
