Country life

The CRN editorial team is a little sore today after a brilliant day's shooting yesterday. Yes, you read it right - shooting.

Not live critters before the outcry starts, but pigeons of the clay variety.

Courtesy of distributor C-MILabs at the tucked away Whithorn Estate in Brook, Surrey. A great use of vendor mdf I would say. Speaking to some of the resellers at the event they seemed to enjoy it and they were a surprising number of hardened shooters in there. And I thought golf was the sport of the channel!

It was a superb day and I never realised shooting could be so much fun - although the pain in the shoulder and jaw the next day is quite significant.

I found out yesterday that along with ten-pin bowling, shooting shotguns is not exactly my forte - I managed a pathetic 17 clays out of 80 - but the fact that I even hit one was a miracle.

To top it off we were entertained by Jimmy Greaves in the afternoon - a surprising hit and a very funny guy. I could get used to the country life - tweed is not such a bad material.

I'll sign off in true Greavsie style today - may you all live long enough to see the end of the DFS sale.