V R Balfour-Browne

[Cranborne]

You may have experienced similar if you've stalked in the Highlands:

Sorry the text is so small, but I hope it's readable.

 

[Cranborne]

And for those of us of a certain vintage:

 

[Oldstalker]

Truly evocative of the days of my Grandfather. He was born in the 1880s, fought as a Handley Page pilot officer in WW I, and in the Home Guard (reserved occupation) in WWII. Victor Balfour-Browne captured them all spiritually.

 

[Oldstalker]

My Grandfather loved his Highland Holidays - usually upper Speyside and I adored it also. My first trout on a fly in the burn in Glen Banchor [so small it had to go to the chemist to be weighed], meeting the keeper/stalker Angus Bain, and seeing his 'keeper's gibbet of wildcats, foxes, hoodie crows, stoats and (a very few) weasels. These were great men who achieved and also told funny stories about themselves. They worked and played energetically. They appreciated nature and kept a balance in nature between predators and game/prey species.

 

[enfieldspares]

Thank you. What a marvellous way to record such times.

 

[angusb1]

A picture painted of a wonderful day out. Fantastic, thank you.

 

[gixer1]

A good friend of mine was awarded the BB trophy in 2012 for services.

Regards,
Gixer