We left Lancashire from Alan & Jan Taylor’s early in the morning. Meeting at Leadhills to start rabbit shooting, there were ten of us the first morning and seven of us the next day.                                                                                                                      David Wood gave a little chat about safety and what we were looking to do over the next couple of days.  We split into two groups and started hunting up the marsh grass areas to find plenty of pheasant poults which gave us a good opportunity to get the dogs dropping to flush. It did make the triggers twitch a few times! But we managed to work the dogs in different areas over the two days with a few partridge to shoot on the 1^st September.                                                                                                             Unfortunately the area had Myxomatosis, we did find a few healthy rabbits, but it is such a horrible disease. We had a very social weekend staying in Thornhills & at the Trigony House Hotel, which kindly cooked our grouse for us.                                     The one sad part of the weekend – we were missing our friend and instructor Clive Miller with his knowledge and dry sense of humour. But we toasted him with a few drams of Dalwhinnie whisky.