Goschens

I was met at Southampton by Nicky, my nephew’s driver. 

 Then I spent a night with Phillip and Fi. Fi had a fall down a hatch to the basement that had been left open. It was dark. She had gone into the room to pick something up.Fortunately she had not broken anything but was still feeling very bruised ten days after the event.

Here is the hatch.

Here are a few more pictures from my one day visit.

Pip has gone shooting the day I arrived. There were nine guns. His was a 16 bore over and under. They shot 220 pheasants. It is a managed shoot which is owned by a syndicate of which Pip is a member. The local game keepers rear 10,000 birds and have regular shoots. Local people are employed to be beaters and all that is needed to manage the shoots.