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Small wins and endless pleasure

I should start making an effort to keep my big mouth shut. Or do I mean that I should try to impose some sort of control over my fingers whenever I sit in front of my laptop and start tapping away at another piece for Shooting Times. Whatever I mean, there have been one or two occasions over the past year or so when I have come to regret what I said, or rather wrote, in my efforts to entertain and occasionally even instruct readers.

Most recently this happened when, in the concluding paragraph of my most recent article (, 19 May), I hoped that the last fortnight of

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