Finally Lord Herbert of South Downs has what he describes as his “dream job”, becoming The Field’s motoring correspondent. A lifelong lover of cars and the countryside in equal measure, Nick is chairman of the Countryside Alliance.

At the age of 62 he finds it increasingly difficult to get in and out of one of his cars, a rather low-slung BMW, or to climb up into the other: a Range Rover that he felt under an obligation to buy after his Dandie Dinmont puppy, Dora, peed in the demonstrator.