A Davies replies
From Mrs Julia Davies Sir: I find it amazing to discover two columnists in The Spectator (12 May) being obsessional about my family (my son, Tristan, is the good-looking one in Deborah Ross's restaurant column). Even if Ms de Lisle (Country life) is feeling a bit cross with my husband, I must correct some of the rather overheated notions about my hunting career reported to her by the Wiltshire informant (who he?).
We have lived here for 20 years, so I presume that he got the right Davies, but during that time my hunting career consisted of two outings with the South West Wilts in 1982 and 1986. My glorious career with the Brecon lasted at least two and a half hours (it poured with rain), and her other anonymous correspondent seems to have blinked at the exact moment when I opened a gate for him on my day out with the Sennybridge Farmers.
If you have other columnists exhibiting obsessional tendencies with the Davies family, I can offer three horses, three dogs, two cats and a pondful of assorted fish. We also have a beautiful and clever daughter, a research psychologist who has been left out so far; I am sure she would think it a lark to conduct research into any further outbreak of frothing-at-the-mouth disease.
Julia Davies
Ansty, Wiltshire
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