IF I’M HONEST, I’VE never really enjoyed shooting in the rain, while my aversion to getting wet has no doubt increased the older I’ve got. Despite the fact that 2022 was the driest year I’ve ever recorded in Suffolk, with just 440mm (17.3in) of rain, a surprising number of shooting days were wet and miserable. However, this is easily explained: a quarter of the year’s rain fell in the last two months of the year.
One of the wettest days of the lot was just before Christmas, when I
