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I CAN'T remember the first three months of the year ever being as wet as the period we've just endured. I'm lucky and live 600ft up in the Cotswolds on free-draining limestone soil, but even there we've had water lying in places I've never witnessed it before.

My next-door neighbour, Doug Etherington-Smith, had to cancel his first event at Oxstalls. I was

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