On a positive note, after my recent concerns over grouse moors, today I attended the Countryside Alliance reception for their excellent Awards, or as they like to bill them, the "Rural Oscars" (I’m sure that sooner or later that’s going to rile the real Oscars, who are quite protective of their trademark).

Of course I took no pleasure from the fact that, while I sipped a glass of champagne and

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