Layers not to be trifled with

LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN

Thank goodness for ex-layers and for Forest Hall. I say this because, with the prospects for the rest of the season looking more and more uncertain, the ex-layers we put down at Forest Hall gave us the opportunity for a day’s sport early in October which, in its rough and ready and informal way, was rather wonderful.

It was wonderful to be out with a gun in the (socially distanced) company of friends, it was wonderful to see pheasants fly again and it was, of course, wonderful