Table Talk

Spring into a dress

Hannah Betts welcomes the new season by going “glasual”

Shock of the new

Thomas Woodham-Smith frets about how to handle real, live customers

A real taste of the sea

Forget hoary folk tales and savour plump herring at its best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The end of the road

Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel

Elephants in the Zoom

Claudia Savage-Gore
blames the tutors for the darlings’ home- schooling problems

Take the slow train

Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines

Busy doing nothing

Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business

Let’s call it a wrap

Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf

The talk of the track

Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners

Rites of spring

The roar of the mower is a sign of life, says Hephzibah Anderson