Clay Pigeon Shooting – Where to Start & How To Improve The fantastic sport of clay pigeon shooting has been with us for over 130 years and shows no sign of losing its popularity – and especially amongst women in …

Icons of the British Countryside – The Pheasant The lovable Pheasant is very much an icon of the British Countryside and intrinsic to many loved countryside pursuits. In fact, its immense popularity is behind numerous of our printed shirt designs …

What is it with Foxes?? I’m sure you must have noticed how foxes have become a normal aspect of the urban scene. But to older city-folk the fox, this somewhat remote, wily character of Aesop Fable fame, with his rather …

The Age Of The Staycation Unsurprisingly, for millions of us planning or booking a holiday, things are now very different from just 12 months ago, as the song from Bob Dylan aptly quotes “The Times They Are A-Changin”, so what …

The Return of Shopping This pandemic has taught us all many things. Learning to live without so many of the freedoms we took for granted before March 2020 has been painful and tested each and every one of us. However …

There’s nothing quite as British as an annual game or country fair. Sadly, these have been much missed over the last 12 months because of the pandemic, but the fantastic news is “they are back” as you may have read …

One of our early blog posts talked about how much we all missed the country fair circuit that sadly, like everything else, was obliterated last year thanks to our nemesis Mr Covid. At that time we were in the thick …

We are sure that you are all missing the same kind of things we are at Hartwell with the ongoing pandemic. Freedom of movement, days out and above all that very quintessential English past time of The Countryside Pub. Think …