Sporting spirit will live on
The situation surrounding COVID-19 is changing rapidly and opinions are shifting. One of the few things that meets with general agreement is that the pandemic is going to have a huge effect on all aspects of life in this country.
Perhaps in the short-term the impact is being felt more keenly in towns and cities, where lockdown has resulted in confinement to flats and apartments, and the only fresh air available is a lap of an overcrowded park, or the queue to get into a supermarket.
In the countryside, farmers are still out in the fields and lambing sheds, continuing to feed the nation. I’m working from home, tucked away from the world in my cottage — I can’t go fishing but that is more or less where the disruption ends.
The shooting industry,
