Tilling (Sussex) story, "Diplomatic Incident", for the former Tilling Society in 1998 and another called "Great Minds" for the Friends of Tilling in 2006. The Friends of Tilling organise an annual gathering in Rye each September for devotees of Mapp & Lucia and E F Benson's other comic novels. Two other Tilling books, "Major Benjy" and "Au Reservoir", were written by Guy Fraser-Sampson and published by Troubador. In 2014 the BBC made a new three-part series adapted by Steve Pemberton (who also played Georgie Pillson) from the original "Mapp and Lucia" novel. Lamb House was the model for "Mallards", the home initially
La Vie du Rail La Vie du Rail La Vie du Rail () is a French publishing group headquartered in Auray, which specialises in magazines and books about rail transport, and transport more generally. The editor-in-chief is Vincent Lalu. It was started in 1952 as an in-house publication of the SNCF, taking over the role played by ("Our trade") since 1938. In 1965 it became a weekly paid-for magazine independent of the SNCF, which retains a minority share in the company. The name then passed to the special-interest publishing house. Since 2002, so as to diversify its customer base, "la Vie du Rail" has