A postscript to the wild pig meeting. My neighbour Josette, a lady in her 70s, who was born and bred here, who has spent much of her later adult life here and who has spent lots of time walking the woods round about has never seen a wild pig. So how lucky I was.

I'm off to the wilds of the Auvergne and the Millevaches plateau this morning for a few days. The object of the expedition is of course golf but coming across interesting wildlife is not out of the question.