For day trippers, a visit to Calais (see www.channelhoppers ) can be a handy way to do a wine shop, especially for savings on champagne deals for weddings and other celebrations. Once they’re dry enough, put them into a food processor with a handful of sea salt flakes and blend to a coarse powder-like consistency or finer if you wish Store in airtight containers.. Serve in martini glasses or similar with a stick of celery and the horseradish and celery salt scattered over.Celery saltFind a head of leafy celery. They’re not that easy to find, as most producers tend to cut all the leaves off, but you’re more likely to find one at a farmers’ market.

Remove all the leaves, keeping the rest of the celery for a soup, stock or salad Roughly chop them, either in a food processor or by hand Set your oven to its lowest temperature. With some modern ovens, you can just use the fan; and if you have an Aga, the warming oven is ideal. Scatter the celery on to 1 or 2 baking trays and leave in the oven overnight until the pieces are dry and crisp without being brown. Depending on how watery the celery is, you may have to allow even more time. Stir every so often until the mixture has frozen to a grainy, slushy consistency. “Can you create athletes or do they just happen?” asks Lendl. “I think you can create them and I think Earl Woods proved that.

People sometimes ask me, ‘How much talent did you have for tennis?’ Well, how do you measure talent? Yeah, sure McEnroe had more feel for the ball, but I knew how to work and I worked harder than he did. Is that a talent in itself? I think it is.” It is a quality he sees in his girls. “When you want to be at the top of your game you can’t leave anything to chance,” he says “That’s what I’m trying to explain to my kids. They don’t understand it yet.” But what they do most definitely understand is the nature of competition They cannot fail to. “I have told the girls since they were little babies that if ever they beat me they will know they earned it, because I will never give them anything,” confesses Lendl. “If Nikki wants to race me from here to there, I won’t let her win – she has to beat me.