Keeper of the month

Watching Mick Carmody walk through his woods is refreshing and enlightening in equal measure. Refreshing because, despite celebrating his 50th anniversary as a gamekeeper this year, he does so with a joy and vigour no different to when he first started his career as apprentice kennel boy for the Earl of Sefton in 1970. Illuminating because it is in the woods of the Rougham estate in Suffolk, where he is headkeeper and appears