Sunday, November 28, 2010

A-hunting we will go

Lucy Glitters (great pen name!) has started writing an entertaining blog about the local Cheshire Hunt, vividly recounting the action at each meet. You can read it at http://www.cheshirehuntconservancy.org/; click on "News" and then "Full Cry."
Lucy also includes hunting trivia like this: "Did you know that hunt staff wear the ribbons on their caps down so that the rain will run over their collar and members wear them up as they can go in if they are wet."
And another local blog, http://sidelinesnews.com/blogs/chasin/, features beautiful photos of the Hunt in action, as well as other equestrian activities.
While you're online, read Max Hastings' very, very funny article about the importance of foxhunting in British culture in "The Guardian": http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/sep/18/britishidentity.ruralaffairs. I laughed out loud at the anecdote he says is his favorite hunting story.

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