27 SEPTEMBER 2003, page 87

Up On The Downs

/ t was the most beautiful September day imaginable. The golden late-summer light illuminated the field, the school band from Christ's Hospital, Horsham, marched on during the......

Dear Mary

Q. I am an Englishman living in France with very good connections in the French 'establishment'. This summer my ladyfriend and I spent four days in the Corsican villa of a......