“If you stand about there, you might get a shot. There’s a bottle of sherry behind the driver’s seat of the Land Rover if you get bored.” My host strides off to place the other Guns for the Blank Drive — so named many years ago in order to manage expectations, but rarely, in my experience, blank. Though, in truth, it doesn’t really matter to the assembled company whether it is or not.
We all know that the bottle of sherry will be no ordinary beverage, probably a gift from Javier, a sporting Spanish nobleman, the proprietor of several notable sherry vineyards, who has, no one quite remembers how or why, taken to visiting Dumfries and Galloway for the hunting and has, in turn, hosted a number of locals on…
