I note Gerald E Spicer (Letters, January 23) is still speed skating at 72 years of age.

It would be advisable to travel in the slow lane, thereby not putting further strain on the NHS.

However, Southern Counties Radio announced one of its presenters had recently had a skating lesson and finished up fracturing his leg in two places.

I guess it was a fine example of one man's frozen delight being another man's poison.

-Roy V Hilliard, Shoreham Road, Brighton