Sir – I must express appreciation of Mike Pryce’s excellent article concerning myself, and Phil Pegler’s generous response in the Letters page.

I thank Mr Pegler for his wishes for my increased longevity. I will certainly try to see out my 10th decade and I will endeavour to carry on writing and sincerely hope that he will continue writing as well.

In my 90 years Worcester has changed a lot.

D E MARGRETT,

Worcester.