BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Ban Angling? Why not Music? As I sit here between meals this Christmastime, sipping from a mug of recuperative lemon green tea, I acknowledge with hearty respect the remains of the smoked salmon before me. Meanwhile, I stare at another dead salmon – a non-smoker – which stares back at me from beside its savaged acquaintance. During the stare exchange, I ponder … Continue reading On Fish
BY JOHN MUSGRAVE This Boxing Day morning thousands of folk will gather on cobbled squares to greet their local hunt. Packs of hounds and squadrons of horses will clip-clop down the highway to cheers and applause. Gabled inns will do a roaring trade in mulled wine, cider and ale. Old friends greet one another. Hounds cast about the crowd for titbits delighting children. It’s a … Continue reading Boxing Clever
BY NIGEL BEAN & PAUL READ The antis have always been vicious and nasty – their comments vile. Just ask anyone involved in field sports. You get called a paedophile, pervert, sadist, psychopath and much more – although you do wonder how much of the insulting amounts to mere projection. Admittedly tensions were running high on both sides at the annual meet for the Carmarthenshire … Continue reading Love Animals, Hate Humans
