Shooting Times & Country

The good life

When I started out on my supermarket meat-free year, I sketched out a rough timeline of events and planned the year ahead.

Back in March, I felt confident, and perhaps rather complacent, about the 12 months ahead. All I really needed to do was to get through to the start of the shooting season, then the pheasant and partridge would tide me over to the end of the challenge. Of

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