Another country
Sir: Congratulations to Melissa Kite for her article ‘Paving paradise’ (2/9 June). She has perfectly expressed the view that we ‘country bumpkins’ have of the invidious invasion of the countryside by Fulham farmers in their Chelsea tractors.
Unfortunately, anyone with the wit to read her article will be nodding their head in agreement, whilst those she criticises will be turning the page in search of Armani and Ralph Lauren adverts. Or if they did actually manage to read it, they would probably not understand her point and certainly would not recognise themselves in her descriptions.
My enjoyment of the countryside is constantly undermined by these ‘incomers’ who demand that our precious rights of way are downgraded to footpaths or closed altogether — but that subject would fill several articles on its own.
Peter Fancourt
Sussex/Surrey border
Peace cry
Sir: Well said, Matthew Parris (‘I hope our Jubilee Queen, unlike the last, outlives a hopeless foreign war’, 2/9 June).
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