WHAT a weekend: Farleigh looked at its very best for the Carriage Driving Trials.

The estate made a superb and sumptuous setting for an event that's both exciting and very elegant. A full report next week.

D-DAY anniversary: Sadly, my report for last Friday never made it into the paper. I wanted to remind readers that Ellisfield has two links with D-Day.

Sixty years ago Mick Farnham's dad, Mandy, who lived at Sylvers, next to The Fox, was part of the Allied invasion force as a machine gunner/despatch rider with the First Middlesex regiment.

He went over on D-Day-plus-one (June 7) with the 15th Scottish Division to Normandy.

Around the same time, Ellisfield's woods were full of American troops waiting to cross the channel.

Where they camped is shown on John and Anne Fox's map in There'll Always Be An Ellisfield, which also marks where six aircraft crashed and around 10 bombs fell.

Few reminders of the war remain. Pam Frankham knows of one carved on a tree in Cannon Wood. It simply says: "Spud 1944".

TUMMY-Ache Hill: To many in Ellisfield, Hassocks Hill is really Tummy-Ache Hill, christened years ago by Amelia Freeman, the result of trips on Mr Mansbridge's bus to Cliddesden School via Farleigh.

In those days, the bump at the top of the hill - now smoothed over - was like a hump-back bridge.

For those too young to remember, going over these left you with a very strange tummy-churning feeling.