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guinea fowl

What you need to know about guinea fowl Hardy and disease-free, guinea fowl live for 10 to 15 years. They can grow up to 48cm (19in) long and weigh 1.8kg…

trout fillet

Trout in a bag may not sound glamorous (say trout à la vapeur if you prefer) but it is one of the most simple of our best trout recipes. It…

Raspberry vinegar

Summer is here and for those of us with soft fruit in the vegetable garden, that probably means raspberries. Whilst raspberry jam is delicious, raspberry vinegar is a useful standby…

City of London livery companies

The Lord Mayor’s Show, an 800-year-old pageant chronicled by Pepys, painted by Canaletto and the first outdoor event ever to be televised live, is a fixture of English life. So…

lavender sugar

A reader writes: Last year I dusted my mince pies with vanilla sugar, which I had made myself. Earlier this year I read an article saying that lavender sugar was…

shooting high pheasants

Risk assessments are now a vital part of any shoot, and it is incumbent upon us all to make what we do as safe as possible. Kevin Wissett-Warner, an independent…

In the grey dawn of D-Day, 6 June 1944, 20-year-old Trooper Lawrence Burn’s 35-tonne DD (duplex-drive) Sherman tank, its flotation screen raised, edged down the ramp of the landing craft…

Top 10 trout rivers. Fishing.

The Field has whittled down the countless number of trout flies available to present the 10 essential trout-fishing flies that no angler should be without. Combined, these effective and deadly…