Confessions of a Shooting Fishing Man herbal medicine

Confessions of a Shooting Fishing Man herbal medicineWhen Laurence Catlow, a classics master at a Cumbrian boarding school, sees a beautiful pheasant in flight, he wants to reach for his gun. In this diary of his sporting year, he asks himself, between days on the local rivers and shoots, why this is so. His answers are surprising, controversial and convincing. They provide an articulate response to the anti fieldsports arguments, and he presents them in an entertaining, frank and amusing manner.

and many other familiar items

Not to mention the many great cricketers

Margaret Wilson has selected the best Lake District literary extracts

weather permitting

supermarket rabbit meat is more likely to have been imported from China than from our estimated wild population of 40 million rabbits

Once a Flyfisher is a sporting diary which follows the events of a season on the beautiful rivers of Yorkshire

being mugged on the River Mole

After two years of bitter campaigning in Ireland he is shipped back to England

missing tortoises

with chickens

disobedient dogs and beloved hats

driven to this by injury or extreme old age