YOU have published three letters from readers reputedly in answer to two of mine. First was the woman who lives in Minster Lovell, and can’t understand why I cannot hear the church bells ringing there from my home near the centre of Oxford.

Three-quarters of her letter related to her own happier days as a bellringer. The second was from a man who apparently spends his days riding round Oxford on buses. He knows the number of buses and of passengers in every town in England and could not agree that the multitude of buses crowding Oxford city, and roads leading into it, is too large, as I suggested – especially as I had the nerve to take a taxi from town to my home via St Aldate’s. Thirdly came Mrs Watson, from Holywell Street, Oxford, who sadly is disabled and, like me, walks between two sticks. She finds the interior of buses beyond delight, with help on every side for the disabled.

I wonder how she “hobbles” from Holywell to the nearest bus stop, because I cannot reach one from my house. But the well-described interior of buses and kind helpfulness of the their drivers cannot lessen the volume of traffic the whole bus takes up on the road.

Gadgets to lessen the global warming emissions from buses do not do the same for the cars, vans, lorries and vast carriers that are held up in traffic queues by buses, running two to six nose to tail and having to stop frequently. None of these letters answered my own! Each banged their own drum, using my name to stand on.

PAMELA ST CLAIR, Argyle Street, Oxford