I once met Anthony Buckeridge briefly and was delighted to meet someone whose writing had given me so much pleasure.

However, Charles Goode (Letters, July 16) would be well advised to restrain the schoolboy in him, because, if I catch him deliberately slowing traffic, much of which is involved with businesses under pressure, I am likely to use his stick to make him into a lollipop man.

-Edward Taylor, Lewes