RICHARD NEGUS IS A PROFESSIONAL HEDGE LAYER AND WRITER. HE IS A KEEN WILDFOWLER AND HAS A PASSION FOR GREY PARTRIDGES
For parents, the school summer holiday is very much like listening to the pub bore tell a joke. You know it is going to be terrible, and inevitably it doesn’t disappoint, dragging on and on and on. Realisation dawns, you have heard it before and when the punchline mercifully hoves into view you discover that your glass is empty and you really need another stiff drink. Obviously for children it’s something quite different. The near eight weeks of freedom is the best, most hilarious thing that has happened since the two weeks off at Easter.
Therefore my wife decided, rather than resort
