Even this late in the season, the middle of September, there were still plenty of families about, enjoying themselves on the sand. There was even a third memoir, A Life in the Day, in 2017, dedicated ‘to Margaret, so lost without her’: his late wife, Margaret Forster. She is a sucker for any dog, always bending down and patting them, slobbering over them, then starting some boring, doggie dialogue with the owners. An Isle of Wight hotel will not be allowed to add more bedrooms after plans have been turned down for a third time.

And coming back again to each other and to our 'love nest' — a phrase Claire does not like but which amuses me — confirmed just how much we had missed each other. The book gave me an excuse to visit places I hadn't been to for years like the Pergola, or look more closely at things like the Farmers Market, which I mocked at first as phoney Hampstead people putting on Barbours and wellies to cross the trenches of the Heath and ponce around with organic rubbish. When she won a history scholarship to Somerville and left for Oxford, he feared she’d be swept away by ‘some languid, fluent, floppy-haired public schoolboy like Oldie editor Harry Mount’, but that wasn’t her style at all.

The last time I had visited here was in 1966 when I interviewed the then governor of Parkhurst, which was then housing the Kray twins and some of the Great Train robbers. Hunter 86, moved with his former love Claire to Ryde in the build-up to lockdown and his 103rd book tells their story over the course of their time here. She has looked after me so well in my times of need, seeing me through all sorts of health problems.

The definitive guide to England's 6,000 GP practices: From number of patients and doctors to how many appointments are face-to-face (as well as what patients REALLY think). Pat McAfee is 'sick' of criticism aimed at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce after the Chiefs' AFC title victory: 'Why is everybody so mad?I would meet them off the hovercraft, take them briefly to our house, where they could have showers and a drink, then take them all for a slap-up meal at The Duck restaurant, just five minutes away.