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Much to do

I spent any time that I could at the new shoot, learning my way around and getting a feel for different parts of it. I saw jobs that needed to be done. When I went to do that job I found the next thing to be done. Sometimes it felt like I had taken on too much but I really enjoyed spending my free time there.

On one of my first walks around after beaters’ day, I saw the aftermath of a particularly windy storm. An oak tree had fallen through one of our release pens – this was not a one-man job to deal

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