Is it just me, or does anyone else find Ben Stiller completely not funny in any way at all?
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Ahem, with apologies to the Monkees, 'Pleasant Valley Sunday', for the title of this post - sorry, just could not resist.

Courtesy of Mr FM, who regular readers may know is currently enjoying a somewhat weapons centric holiday in  the USA, I was able to take his peg on a driven day this Saturday.

The day started well, if cold, with a little fog and quite still and after our very hasty lunch break the wind piped up and the sky became a little less threatening, although we were to be denied sunshine.

The birds were scarce and stayed low, with the best drive at the end with the beaters coming through a thick woodland delivering a dozen or more to our guns.

Overall tally was a little over 30 - some landed the wrong side of a canal and it was too late too dark and frankly too hard to get them.



But we did have a good day.   The countryside was spectacular and we covered a variety of different terrain and the state of the Land Rover proof that we'd been through proper mud.   My tally was 4 I think, 3 pheasant and one partridge and I brought ...   more »