Goodbye Mr Mole

SIR: You published my cry for help a couple of months ago (‘Mole woes’, Readers’ Letters, March issue) and I have read in your past two issues a number of very helpful suggestions from readers on how to rid my garden of moles. The recommendations were so wide and varied that I left my copy of your May edition on my lawn overnight to see what actions the culprits might decide on.

I am delighted to inform you that my moles have now moved on – possibly to the garden of a Daily Mail reader? Clearly, they are intelligent Oldie readers who are also intent on refuting James Le Fanu’s assertion that they are almost blind. They have asked me to suggest that this correspondence is now closed.

Bob Pawsey, Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire.