The Hunting Diaries "Ask Aunt Annie"

And so our season is over! Our hunting ends early at the Tivyside, with closing meet in mid- February to allow for the lambing season. After having a month off following his Christmas Eve colic, Bluey returned to the hunting field at the end of January. We had an excellent meet on the mountain, set off with extremely strong punch, and accompanied by a band of visiting Irishmen in camo and galoshes. Later on, when the weather turned and the mist came in, they loomed like characters from Game of Thrones, propped up on their wooden sticks and visible only...

I hope that you have all had a lovely Christmas, and are looking forward to both New Year’s Eve celebrations, and hunting the following day! Bluey had colic on Christmas Eve, so we have not been out over the festive period, and will not be out again for a couple of weeks.   After getting back from Australia we got stuck back in to hunting, starting off with a meet where Bluey pulled a shoe off a hundred meters or so down the first farm track! We followed that with a lovely meet overlooking Newport, where the mulled wine was...

Hello and thank you for reading my very first blog for The Old Hunting Habit! I am so excited to work with my favourite hunting shop, and hope that you enjoy reading about my hunting season.   I am a West Wales based agricultural consultant, specialising in grass- based dairy systems, and trying to forge something of a side hustle through freelance writing (difficult when I’m useless at pitching editors!). Some of you may have already come across my blog The Hunting Diaries (www.askauntannie.com), these write ups will be of a similar nature, but covering wider sections of the hunting...