As Paris would have it, this one was stolen from Nazi Germany…! The garden at Stonypath used to be inhabited by two live tortoises, who were, it appears, slow and savage rather than slow and amiable. Their noisy raids on the lettuce patch would customarily be followed by a hasty retreat up on to the moors. *Panzer Leader* is the title of a book by General Guderian, the foremost theorist of Panzer warfare.