After a short time chatting with mixed media artist Mark Hearld, the rather uplifting realisation emerges that everyone is an artist – perhaps. Certainly everything is art when seen through…
The Field
The Queen’s Green Canopy: a Tree-bilee Year
The Queen’s Green Canopy, a nationwide tree-planting initiative, is underway to mark HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, finds Melanie Cable-Alexander
Lobster Mac and Cheese
Rich, luxurious and decadent, lobster mac and cheese makes the most of not only the meat but the hugely flavourful shells. However, be careful not to over-simmer the milk, as…
Six of the best properties in Cumbria
LOW GREENSIDE WASDALE HEAD, SEASCALE A renovated five-bedroom house in the Wasdale valley in the Lake District National Park, with the Screes as its backdrop and the fells of Buckbarrow…
Wild Justice: founded on a dishonesty
Set up to ‘fight for wildlife’, Wild Justice has wasted Government resources in its relentless legal attacks on shooting and left fragile species open to predation – where’s the justice…
Sporting Artist: Tania Still
RIGHT from the beginning, sporting art has been denigrated or, at best, dismissed as not worthy of consideration. When George Stubbs began work in the 18th century, equine and sporting…
Inbreeding and line-breeding in working dogs
There is danger in breeding working dogs too closely, so a pedigree full of FTCh is not necessarily a good thing
Best labrador colour: does coat make a difference?
The discussion over what is the best labrador colour will probably never end. BLACK IN THE FIELD, YELLOW IN THE SHOW RING Ask those in the shooting field what the…
Our selection of 9 great fishing products
When you head down the river bank this summer, these 9 fantastic products will sure to make it a more enjoyable and memorable experience. OUR SELECTION OF 9 GREAT FISHING…
Over and under or side by side?
Over and under or side by side will be forever open for debate. While tradition has favoured side by sides, an over and under will not recieve the snide comments…