SPRAYING GORSE IS DAFTER THAN YOU THINK (Letter published in Dompost, September 15)

No, Susan Thrasher isn’t the only one who thinks sprayed gorse is an eyesore (Letters, September 15). And ‘the killing off of substantial plants or trees’ by spraying is even dafter than she thinks. You have only to leave gorse alone long enough for those tree seedlings to grow up through it, say 20-25 years, and it’s goodbye gorse. It can’t survive in shade.

My brother Karl commented that I must be one of the few people still alive who know where to put the word 'only'.

That was nice of him. Except as 'one of the few people still alive' I wonder how long I have to live. Hmmm.