Reviving an old ritual

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

The other day, after the end of this most frustrating of seasons, I was out at High Park doing what I do almost every morning for something like two-thirds of the year.

I was feeding pheasants. I was also trying to keep warm in the bitter blast of the east wind. While scattering corn for birds that seemed to know the shooting was over and so were happy to come out of hiding, I occupied my mind by looking back over the sport