Check mate
The Queen’s Gambit: not only an opening move in chess and a book by Walter Tevis, but also a fantastic series on Netflix. “What has this to do with ferreting?” I hear you cry. Well, for me, everything. Ever since I started ferreting, I have evaluated, scrutinised and reacted to everything that I have done. My biggest bugbear is getting it wrong but when you are dealing with the natural world, it inevitably happens from time to time. It is how you react to it that matters.
Like a ferreting Beth Harmon — Tevis’s orphaned chess prodigy — I used to visualise the mistakes, how to
