Shooting Times & Country

Country Diary

It feels wrong to write this when there is so much misery. But I think the lockdown will be etched on my memory as a glorious spring when we have been able to appreciate the wildflowers and the birdsong without being troubled by the outside world at all.

Some call centres have fallen silent, the civil servants have been furloughed and travelling salesmen no longer happen to be passing our door.

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