Today dear readers is The Glorious Twelfth & for those of you lucky enough to be out on the high hill, what sport awaits you…

Your humble correspondent is stuck in Cathay’s bosom however, reading sad news like this

The grouse shooting industry could become the latest casualty of the credit crisis, it is feared.

So if anyone out there is pondering the cost of a days shooting, just go do it. I havent manged to get up to Scotland for a couple of years now, but if you have never been up on the moor in pursuit of those elusive little red birds, I guarantee you that your game book is incomplete. Rectify that inexcuable omission. Now