They are an odd combination - he of the clipped lawns she of the wild meadows - but evidently one

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They are an odd combination - he of the clipped lawns, she of the wild meadows - but evidently one that works: the eldest of their three children is 28. There's no Aga in the kitchen, no driftwood on the mantelpiece. Even the lawns, which give on to meadows and are watered by a meandering stream, are severely clipped.Only Carol fits the preconceptions: slightly weathered but smooth, like one of her pebbles; and almost as silent. In front of the venetian blind-clad glazed walls of the house - an unspectacular 1930s property when bought 19 years ago, extended in phases as finances permitted - stands not the clapped-out 2CV of my imagination but a couple of matching dark grey Fiat Puntos. A Sixties Italian plastic swivel armchair sits with its back to a Le Corbusier chaise longue, solitarily contemplating the meadowlands outside. I imagine how Carol Sinclair lives, photogen-ically by the sea in a whitewashed cottage, bleached driftwood on the mantelpiece... Which is how we come to be nowhere near the sea, on the borders of Essex and Suffolk, standing on the hard white-tiled floor of one of the least rustic, most minimalist living rooms of rural England.

I am back as a child, remembering the feel of a special stone's smooth roundness in the palm of my hand. And then the salt smell of the sea gives way to the journalistic whiff of a story. But all I want to do is stand and look at Carol Sinclair's pebble-studded orbs and let the call of the sea wash over me. Here, in this shop so sophisticated it calls itself a gallery, there is everything the urban materialist could desire, from a rubber-studded chaise longue to a stainless steel wardrobe. I DIDN'T find Carol Sinclair Her work found me. Amid the purring velvet decadence of curled-up chairs, the tortured curves of futuristic chaise longues and the rich confusions of modern design that fill Jinan in Golden Square in London, Carol Sinclair's sculptures send out invisible rays of memory and longing.

But that is still faster than the average car in many city centres !. Zipping is slightly restricted when you switch to the electric mode, however, because the top speed then falls to 15mph. It's a doddle to drive and the pleasure of cruising past a row of traffic cannot be denied. True eco-warriors will be even more pleased to hear that there is also an electric version with a hybrid combustion and battery engine This scooter bimodale is called the Zip & Zip.