Have I missed something?
Right to get the story straight, I appeared in two programs; 'Lost Gardens' which was a posh garden make over show with Monty Don and a program called 'A place in Greece'.
Lost Gardens was interesting, at the time I was a Lock keeper on the Junction of the Coventry Canal and the North Oxford Canal. They came along and put the 1 acre garden back to how it may have looked in the Victorian era, veg plots, orchards, chickens etc. It was a complete load of Ballacks really! But I got to eat in the catering bus for two weeks and had loads of veg and fruit for a while before I got bored of gardening!
The other program was about two chaps who lived on a boat together but had decided to move to Greece. I did a little bit on the film about canal boats and all that. They needed to get some emails and asked if they could use my computer. I said no problem! The computer was in the bedroom. I saw nothing wrong in this until the program went out.
These two gentlemen were of the 'Judy Garland' persuasion if you get my meaning. They were 'real screamers' and well known in the area. I was oblivious to it. The fact that they were in my bedroom raised some eye brows with the locals I can tell you!
Ho well we live and learn, I think that I'll regret telling you all that!
Thanks Sikamalc for your kind words. As you know I was rather concerned about the whole situation with being offered free stalking on such a prestigious estate and also worried about making an arse of myself in front of your clients and friends. It was a great experience and I throughly enjoyed Fred's stories of the bad old days when deer were shot as pests with shotguns. He is a real treasure with his trusty ancient Mannlicher and his vast knowledge of the deer and the countryside. A real Gentleman of the sport. I'm looking to do some more writing and would love it get some of his tales down on paper for posterity.
Seeing that lazy journalism on the deer culling video makes me even more determined to get the people of this country to understand and appreciate what we do and why!
PS Rob when next we stalk together I want to shoot only Black Fallow deer not the common ones and afterwards I want only blue M & M's delivered to my dressing room!