DESPITE, or possibly because of, my belatedly wishing your columnist Peter Unsworth a happy new year after bumping into him at the outset of his weekly (weather-permitting) tour of Oxford last Tuesday, he unfortunately seems to have had a particularly dismal day (Cabbages & Kings, in last Friday’s Oxford Mail).
Had he chosen the following Saturday he would have been treated in Cornmarket to a 12 or 15-piece percussion band gleefully banging away on their more-or-less familiar instruments so loudly that some of the members were themselves wearing earplugs.
Not far off, however, there was an overflowing rubbish bin. So I note that the council is wisely and aptly spending its income from the numerous, exorbitant on-the-spot fines imposed for littering the area.
DAVID DIMENT Riverside Court Oxford
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