Dom Joly: Dragging the countryside for strong scent of a ->-bleeped-<-
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dom-joly/dom-joly-dragging-the-countryside-for-strong-scent-of-a-->-bleeped-<--1067116.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dom-joly/dom-joly-dragging-the-countryside-for-strong-scent-of-a--%3E-bleeped-%3C--1067116.html)
12/15/2008
There is not a huge amount of sport to do down here in the Cotswolds. There's a badminton club in the nearby town, I think lawn bowls is on offer in Cirencester and I occasionally see a jogger looking thoroughly depressed with life as I drive through a huge puddle and soak them to the Lycraed bone. I always wonder what they're running from. How bad does your home life have to be before you put on a pair of too-tight shorts and start randomly running along a road?
Whatever the answer, it's not my bag. I have started to look towards more traditional country pursuits like fox-hunting. The thing is that I'm a bit confused with the whole affair. As far as I know, fox-hunting was banned by Tony Blair, who used the issue as a piece of meat (tofu) to throw to his left-wing backbenchers. And yet pretty
regularly, the local hunt meets on the village green looking
resplendent in their red finery.