Most keepers will be kept busy over the festive season with Boxing Day shoots and feeding pheasants. Let’s hope they get some quality time with their families, too, when the big day arrives. If you haven’t signed our online petition regarding the tail docking please take the time to do so. It is very important for us to have as many signatures as we can possibly get. We are now hopefully nearing the end of this sorry saga and one last push might make our politicians remove some of the cotton wool from their ears. I would just like to take this opportunity, personally, and from everyone at the SGA, to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.