The day before yesterday, we held an all-day birthday party with 50 guests, which we had been secretly organising since May this year for a special hunter among us. It took place in our hunting grounds in the nature reserve with special permission. All of our hunting dogs were there (my wire-haired dachshund ‘Skipper’ was completely beside himself with joy and got enough pats from strangers and dogs to last him the next 10 years) and there was even a small hunting horn ensemble.

Only the best ingredients on the barbecue and in the salad bowls, no questionable meat and sausages, but everything from wild duck, young wild boar and roe deer to red deer, no ready-made salads, but 15 excellent handmade ones, no alcohol, but really good non-alcoholic beer and sparkling wine. Alcohol is not allowed in nature reserves. We didn't miss it, and everyone was able to drive home safely late in the evening.