Month: September 2022

One good turn deserves another…

First published in EDRD in 2015         Paco     It’s been a great autumn, dry and crispy with just enough rain to keep the ground soft, and although a little warmer than I would like it hasn’t been too bad. While I thought I had all those little niggling jobs done round…
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September 28, 2022 0

Irish Extra September 2022

  By the time you read this the season will be well and truly opened. I am writing from sunny Spain at present and can think of nothing better than a cold frosty morning. Before leaving I had a couple of early mornings out with David at the request of a local landowner where he…
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September 28, 2022 0

Scattered Shots

  First published in Irish Country Sports & Country Life Magazine Shooting has been there on my shoulder (no pun intended) since I was a child. My earliest memory which I may have written of before was of my father, every young boy (and grown mans if they were honest) hero, coming in the back…
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September 1, 2022 0