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...Instead, keep it broken when carrying it, and only shoot when the bird — clay or otherwise — is above the heather. As soon as the bead on the barrel touches your target, shoot....
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...Sir George Hollingbery, Britain’s excellent ambassador, calls it “desperately unfair”. He’s spot on....
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...When pottery students came to buy items from his studio, “he gave them lumps of clay instead and encouraged them to make their own”, says George....
...Of the others, Egils Silins, as Wotan in Das Rheingold, and Clay Hilley, as the last-minute Siegfried in Götterdämmerung, kept the show on the road....
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