A day with the ginger giraffe

Nicky Genders’ adventure of a lifetime started off with bumps in the road until their new four-legged misfit turned their luck around…

Will Bryer on coveting a hound’s sense of smell, novel excuses for falling off and having to accept his wife is always right

Robert Blane on the value of the B test, a late foray into point-to-pointing and how endurance teaches key life skills

Fast, fearless, nearly 90 and not out – Jeff Osborne tells Eleanor Jones why his wild ride through bikes, planes and ponies is far from over

JOSH dabbed expertly at the cut he’d just finished sewing up. He’d made a neat job of it and it should heal very nicely, leaving only a line. It wouldn’t be seen, anyway, once the cat’s fur grew back.

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