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Tuesday 12 August 2008

The Glorious Twelfth

For liberty and livelihood! Thousands of grouse shooting gentlemen and their smiling gamekeepers will take to the moors of Scotland and northern England today for the Glorious Twelfth. For the willing and well-disposed - a day of shooting will cost you only about £7,000 - you can experience this rarest of British sporting treats. Recommended reading before you go: Better to kill a fellow gun than wing a beater.

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Posted by Beaverbrook at 00:08

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4 comments:

Birkenhead said...

I love this passage from Warner:

A novice kitted out in brand-new knickerbockers and deerstalker might as well wear one of those conference badges saying “Hedge fund manager”. A gentleman will be wearing tweeds weathered to the same consistency as the suit of armour his ancestor wore at Agincourt.

If he has been obliged to replace his Barbour since last season, he may take the precaution of driving his tractor over it several times. Nor should the olfactory sense be neglected: if you cannot out-stink the wet gun-dogs, your bona fides may be suspect.

12 August 2008 at 11:27
Anonymous said...

Hunting in a suit? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

I think I'd rather go moose hunting!

12 August 2008 at 20:59
Marlborough said...

Well its not a three piece banker suit and Oxfords - its a tough set of tweeds and your Wellingtons. Available at J. Barbour & Sons in North America every bit as much as they are sold in the U.K.

12 August 2008 at 22:22
Anonymous said...

I'm surprised this has not been banned by Labour on the grounds it encourages gun crime. For a blast is just like the thrill of a chase, it thus "compensates" for the foxy ban. Perhaps that's why Labour has not banned it (yet).

18 August 2008 at 08:15

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