The Game’s afoot August 11, 2011 BLAZING at fast-flying game amid remote, beautiful landscapes can be a pretty thrilling way to start the day. The game season, which gets underway today with the start of the grouse season lasts until February as quarry like partridge, duck and pheasant come into season. There’s a multitude of different styles of shoot to experience [...]
WHAT TO WEAR ON THE MOORS August 11, 2011 1. BERNARD WEATHERILL Lightweight fieldcoat, £745. www.bernardweatherill.com 2. HOLLAND & HOLLAND Men’s tweed breeks, £450. www.hollandandholland.com 3. WILLIAM & SON Tweed cap, £55 www.william&son.com 4. BERNARD WEATHERILL Shooting socks, £55 5. james PURDEY & son Lightweight tracker jacket, £495. ww.purdey.com 6. HOLLAND & HOLLAND Tattershall shirts, £150 7. WILLIAM & SON Ladies tweed jacket, £715
COLLECTING: FINE GUNS August 11, 2011 Swedish masters deliver the Big Five Mayfair’s William & Son is known for its spectacular shotguns which can take months to make. However, it also has for sale arguably the world’s finest bolt-action rifles – the sort of thing a billionaire might use for stalking deer (season starts in October) – made by Swedish father/son [...]
GLORIOUS 12: RESTAURANTS SERVING GAME August 11, 2011 Plateau Canary Wharfers can go to swanky Plateau, where chef Allan Pickett will be serving up roast grouse, game croute and watercress with endricks gin jus. 16-19 Canada Square. www.plateau-restaurant.co.uk Brasserie Joel French chef Joel Antunes is doing roast grouse with pumpkin praline, ravioli and bread sauce. Good for those after something sophisticated yet hearty. [...]
GAME SEASON CALENDER August 11, 2011 Grouse Aug 12 to Dec 10 Ptarmigan Aug 12 to Dec 10 Common Snipe Aug 12 to Jan 31 Black Grouse Aug 20 to Dec 10 Partridge Sep 1 to Feb 1 Coot/Moorhen Sep 1 to Jan 31 Golden Plover Sep 1 to Jan 31 Duck: Inland Sep 1 to Jan 31 Duck: Below spring [...]
Hi-jinx and social climbing August 10, 2011 MARRYING UP BY WENDY HOLDEN Headline, £19.99 HAVING spent the 90s working for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Style Mag – where she ghost-wrote a column by Tara Palmer Tompkinson – and Tatler, Wendy Holden knows a thing or three about social snobbery, the chattering classes and that type of person deserving of a [...]
I’m battling the summer fatso blues August 10, 2011 SOLVING YOUR WORK-LIFE PROBLEMS I’m about to go on holiday with my girlfriend to Ibiza but I’m feeling really rubbish about my body. This summer has been massive on nights out and picnics and I’ve gained half a stone. I’m going to look awful next to all those six-packed hunks and I’m worried my girlfriend will go [...]
OUT OF OFFICE August 10, 2011 AN EVENING WITH SOUTH PACIFIC The City gets a spot of good old fashioned American amusement as a New York Lincoln Center production of South Pacific lands at the Barbican. Set during World War II, South Pacific is the sweeping romantic story of two couples, threatened by the realities of war. The score includes Some [...]
Smartphones for making a big statement August 10, 2011 SOME walks of life call for subtlety, restraint, understatement. Some, however, call for brash, brazen, over-the-top statement-making. People for whom bling is still in and status symbols a requirement of doing business, have a bit of a problem when it comes to phones. It’s difficult to separate yourself from the crowd when the crowd – [...]
Watches for the discerning gadget geek August 10, 2011 ROMAIN Jerome and Christophe Claret are both watch-making names associated with boundary-breaking. Claret is famous for creating incredibly complex mechanisms; Romain Jerome has made watches incorporating moon dust, bits of the Titanic and volcano ash. This year both have made waves with new creations that have fun with geeky male obsessions. Romain Jerome’s Space Invaders [...]