Lift a glass and raise our spirits

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

When March is in the right mood it can organise an impressive spring festival. Right at the beginning of the month, it decided to do just that. The decision turned feeding the surviving pheasants of High Park, almost always a pleasure, into arguably the most enjoyable activity that the continuing lockdown allowed me.

I remember wondering one glorious morning what in the present situation could possibly be better than wandering round my shoot in the sunshine and scattering corn for hungry pheasants. Shooting them might have