Dear Alice,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was you I spotted in the pouring rain walking along the muddy fields in Harpenden last Friday?

Marion

Hi Marion,

Yes, well-spotted, that was me (and not only me but my husband Simon, carrying the ashes of my deceased mother-in-law Rita McVeigh, her doughty ex-neighbour Sylvia and two frisky thoroughbreds, roughly seventeen hands each)...