'The Friendly 7'

[Chris Garner]

Slightly off message but speaking of SUVs there's a piece in this week's Country Life magazine. The writer describes struggling to climb the 25% Sutton Bank in the Yorkshire Dales in snow and apologising for the fact he's using what might be described as a global warming, four litre, vehicle. He then goes on to say ' ...my mind went back to Herriott: how the hell did he manage, in a 1930 Austin, with bald tyres, to do his wintry rounds as t'vitn'ry? But they were resourceful and tough that generation. They did for Hitler.

I expect our contributor, Malcolm Parker, will tell us!