MY ORIGINAL intention when I first wrote regarding Gerald Stoodley was to suggest the Andover Advertiser give GS his own column (so that I could avoid reading it).

However, since then things have taken an unexpected turn. It appears we have two factions in the readership, those for and those against, but horror of horrors it transpires there is a Stoodley Junior who, from his letter of June 5, is a chip off the old block.

Someone please tell me what ‘self appraise’ is and what has the Canadian Grand Prix got to do with anything at all?

I shall be happy to be corrected if my assumption that he means self praise has been misinterpreted by me.

Judy Fowler, via e-mail