Away with sackcloth and ashes

Tessa Waugh does her best to play ball when attending the cricket with her father as a substitute for her son, relishing the juxtaposition of chats on bladder botox with military etiquette

H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen has fun at two major hound shows, and has one eye on the approaching season

Clive Banwell on starting afresh at 65, preparing winners from the field and overcoming adversity

Moments enjoyed, lessons learned, handy advice, weird stuff that happened: welcome to the little bits and pieces that don’t make big stories, but do make all the difference.

A Blencathra bitch is champion for the third year running, and there’s emotion round the ring when a Cumbria beagle takes the supreme

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight