She tells us about Milton's recovery from a by-pass operation, about their daughter Janet's interest in boys ballooning to rival her love of horses, of how their son David became a devotee of Kipling during his father's year at Caius College, Cambridge.
In May, North Wales Police stopped about 15 drivers, some towing motorbikes on trailers, in four hours of an operation at the Horseshoe Pass, Denbighshire.