The Hunter Decorator

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler In the shouty world of overchoice, here's a calming read for Hunter Decorators everywhere.  Our motto is 'Manliness within Reason' and this novel embodies it. It's deep without being corny, emotional without being sentimental and profoundly masculine without being macho. You don't have to love the mountains to appreciate the story, but it helps and it's also better in the original German if you fancy dusting off that GCSE.

Put your thoughts down on paper. You can shine. It's meant to be hard. Ask questions. Make sure you understand things. Learn from your mistakes. Don't be too quick to understand the issues. Slow down a little. Be punctual. Time is precious. You are doing fine. Be interesting.

Beer Contrary to rumour, y ou drink it occasionally. In Geneva a 'Löwenbräu', in the US a 'Miller High Life', a couple of 'Red Stripe' in Jamaica and as many as four steins of local brew in Munich if you find yourself with an ex-Luftwafffe pilot. You eschew English beer: it belongs in pubs and you do not. Whiskey  Preferably a bourbon such as 'Old Grand Dad', 'I.W. Harper's', 'Walker's Deluxe' or 'Jack Daniel's'. You have the entire bottle brought on a tray with a bowl of ice and a tumbler and prepare the drink as follows: you half fill the glass with ice and add three fingers of whiskey. You swill it around to cool it, break it down with the ice and drink it down in two long draughts, feeling its friendly bite at the back of your throat and in your stomach. You refill the glass, this time with more ice than before and take it slower. Sometimes you dilute the drink with soda. For long car journey...

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Adopted from the earlier Etruscans, probably by way of Campania, gladiatorial combats were originally a funeral rite introduced to Rome in 264 BC by the sons of Junius Brutus. In 46 BC Julius Caesar commemorated the death of his daughter Julia with elaborate games and in 65 BC he honoured his father in a similar way. The ritual eventually lost much of its religious significance and by the end of AD 200, as aristocratic funerals increasingly became political acts, gladiatorial matches became the province of the emperors, who presented them as enactment of their own power and prestige. Most gladiators were either prisoners of war, slaves bought for the purpose, or criminals sentenced to serve in the games and the odds of these professional gladiator being killed in any particular bout were about one in ten. Some gladiators were criminals condemned to die in the ring and these had no chance of survival. It was they who declared 'Ave, imperator, morituri te salutant!' before battle...