How do you plant leeks in cement-hard French soil, impress Gallic neighbours with your non-existent gardening credentials and survive a seven-hour celebratory communion lunch (followed by dinner)? What skills are required to cope with suicidal French mice, resist the advances of an attractive but desperate lady cheese-maker during an English lesson, buy wine from Mr Grump the grower, and - last not but not least - stoop so low as to snap up the plastic trophy in the annual garden competition? 'An Englishman a la Campagne' supplies the answers to these dilemmas and more.
