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Having retired last summer I have impressed my wife with my skills at hunter-gathering. The freezer is respectably full of pheasants and the odd brace of partridges, plus a large quantity of blackberries. I also managed to find enough sloes to make my first brew of sloe gin. To continue in this vein can you recommend a book that advises on hunter-gathering through the seasons? Read more
I have found some recipes for mead but they seem to vary enormously and are rather complicated. Have you a simple one? Read more
Who does fallen game belong to if it lands on a public right of way? Read more
I am trying to find the origin and meaning of the toast "Here's mud in your eye." I have been to a few parties where this toast has been used and many other guests were as ignorant of its meaning as I was. Can you enlighten? Read more
Over the past months we have shot 20 grey squirrels as they have been causing extensive damage to our young sycamores and beeches. Yet other squirrels just come and take up where their fellows once stood. Will they keep coming? Read more
My house sits in the middle of a farm surrounded by forestry. We love to see the wildlife in our garden but are unable to have flower beds as the muntjac and fallow deer come and help themselves. As we don't want to fence the garden are there plants we could have that the deer would not eat? If so, what are they? Read more
There are stirrings in the hedgerows as the peak season for first pheasant and then partridge hatching gets under way. With this comes the biggest dilemma in low-ground wild game production – where to take the chicks? Read more
I may be a dyed-in the wool country bumpkin, but sometimes I envy the urban gardener. Life on a town-centre vegetable plot is so pest-free. Read more
There is a widespread myth that to be a successful trapper you need to have inherited generations of skill, learnt at your father’s knee. My father, by whom I was taught a great deal, pooh-poohed this and said that all you needed was common sense and efficient traps. He proved his point – he seemed able to catch almost anything, despite having learnt little more from his dad than how to snare rabbits and deal with mice in the larder. Read more
Lincolnshire Police dismisses claims that disabled man who later shot himself was due to have his weapons removed. Read more
The point-to-point season is now is full swing so support your local h... Read more
Be in at the start of the 2012 point-to-point season with these Januar... Read more
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