Letter of the week
Give it the cut direct
YOUR article on pollarded trees (‘Cut and come again’, February 8) reminded me of how Oliver Rackham describes Staverton Park in Suffolk (above): ‘An awesome place of Tolkienesque wonder and beauty. Mighty oaks of unknown age rise out of a sea of bracken, or are mysteriously surrounded by rings of yet mightier hollies. Overshadowed giants moulder half fallen against other giants.’
Brian Hebblethwaite, Cambridgeshire
The writer of the letter of the week will win a bottle of Pol Roger Brut Réserve Champagne
A dog by any other name would be as naughty
I WAS surprised to note that there was no mention of Havoc as a good name for a dog). Not only does it accurately record what a dog will do to a ball of wool in half a minute, it also gives the owner a sense of being better read than the man beside him vainly bellowing for Burridge.
