Coval III

SIR: My Coval was in around 1970. It was a Sunday morning in my home in Potters Bar. My husband and two small children were still asleep in bed upstairs and I stood looking out of the window at a weeping willow in the front garden, just coming into leaf. A joint of pork was waiting in the fridge for our Sunday dinner. It was a feeling of deep contentment that I have never forgotten.

Incidentally, I believe Coval Lane is in Chelmsford, not Great Baddow. I grew up in Chelmsford and I think I used to be taken to a dentist in Coval Lane – so not the happiest of associations for me! Joyce Wallis, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire