"A father's advice" was written by Mark Beaufoy rather than Beauboy, and still carries some weight and resonance.

A while back I loaned a lightweight .410 to a young man for a season and a half. Before collecting it his dad made him learn the Beaufoy piece off by heart and recite it to me before collecting the gun. Young Matt shot his first driven pheasant with it on Beaters Day.



"Tum Tum" may well have been a roue, but for the years he was King proved to be rather a good and enlightened one in contrast to his absentee Ma who had been off her trolley for years. The way Victoria treated her children I'm surprised they didn't all turn out to be axe murderers; the odd legover incident seems pretty small beer.

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Thank you, very kind. Mine's a pint