DEREK BELL

hope to inject a bit of levity into proceedings here. Really, I do, but once again I feel obliged to mention friends who have fallen off the twig, as it were. I discussed Alain de Cadanet in this column a few months back, but I hope you won’t mind me doing so again. We recently had a special dinner in his memory at the Royal Automobile Club in London, with the memorial service taking place a few days later. I miss Alain, the pity being that we became friends only in our autumn