January is all about fresh starts and beginning the New Year on the right footing. Before reading our guide to the best new sporting kit, be sure to take a…
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Best cocktail making kit to mix with
The best cocktail making kit should be sleek, sophisticated and sublime. There is nothing better than a man who can handle his jigger.
Sporting Diana: Clare Brownlow
I have been out in the field or on a riverbank for as long as I can remember. My father and mother encouraged me from a young age to fish…
The Barnsdale hotel review
For many of those who have grown up in or near Rutland, Barnsdale Lodge will long have been a fixture. In my memory it played host to a hunt bash…
Kit To Covert In December
December Kit To Covert is all about celebrating not just Christmas but also superb winter sport. You may also be interested in our guides to the best hampers, backgammon sets…
The poppy: a plant that helps both to remember and forget
If any plant can be called enigmatic it must be the opium poppy, for it has been both a blessing and curse to mankind.Native to a region that ranges from…
Medieval ghost stories
Ghost stories have all but disappeared from contemporary culture. Sure, the BBC trots out the occasional MR James at Christmas, but as a literary and screen genre, ghost stories have…
Haunted country houses. Bumps in the night?
A haunted country house complete with ghost has a certain allure, whether you believe in the paranormal or not. But whatever your stance, there are often very real – and…
The Exmoor Forest Inn and Duredon Farm review
WHILE many of us make the late summer caravanserai to Scotland, there is another destination for discerning sportsmen and naturalists which is the wide open moorland of Exmoor. Here, stags…
Kit To Covert In November
Dark nights and the star of frosty mornings is something welcomed by country sports lovers: it means the season is in full swing. So, settle down and take a peak…