High and dry
RICHARD NEGUS IS A PROFESSIONAL HEDGE LAYER AND WRITER. HE IS A KEEN WILDFOWLER AND HAS A PASSION FOR GREY PARTRIDGES
As a boy, my heroes were a mixed bag. No poodle-haired rockstars nor crumple-suited Hollywood detectives for me. My heroes were a gamekeeper named Tony Butler, a sporting parson called David Hopley and Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie.
Tony and David had country lore oozing from every pore, Ms Harry had fewer fieldsports credentials. My son, Charlie, has built up a similarly diverse array of champions. He holds evolutionary biologist Professor Ben Garrod in the highest of regard, equally the actor Sam Neill, largely due to his role as the heroic palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant in
