I AM proud to reveal myself as Mr Toad, the starting-pistol-toting Latin teacher of Chris Shipton's early career in cartoons.

His signed copy still adorns my study where, a little older and a little wartier, I still teach Classics.

Chris has a remarkable talent and sense of humour and will go far (bet I never wrote that on his Latin report, though!).

Good luck to him.

MARTIN ROBERTS, Stone Close, Botley, Oxford