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Long life

A tale of a Teflon-coated hen pheasant

The survival of this death-defying bird is one in the eye for the socially aspirational nouveaux riches of Northants

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

This is an uplifting story of survival with which to usher in the New Year. At Stoke Park, my home in Northamptonshire, I went the other day into the West Pavilion, one of two 17th-century buildings that were once connected by colonnades to a country house that burned down in 1896.

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