Sir,
Last Thursday (November 7) I was sitting on Victoria Coach Station, after having returned there from Oxford, where I had just taken part in Channel 5's 'Brainteaser'. I was on my way home to Whitstable, exhausted from a day that began at 5.30 am and from the long travel and 'contestant stress'.
It is here that I want to thank a young man from Tenby, whose pleasant conversation revived my jaded spirits, as I set out for the last leg of my journey home. He was reading an English translation of Voltaire's 'Candide', which he assured me happily he picked up for £1. I said I found it hard to read on stations, in surgeries etc., indeed, anywhere away from my flat.
He assured me he didn't find it hard and said his favourite place to read was by the sea.
And so, since my fleeting companion had very long fair hair and was an imposing physique, I can imagine him, Poseeidon-like, striding across Tenby beach, current book in hand!
I wrote this in the hope that, on the day he briefly abandons his classics for the local newspaper, he may just see this. If he does... then I thank him for cheering up my lonely and arduous journey, back to my seaside home (Whitstable).
Edna Harvey,
Flat B,
114 Cromwell Road,
Whitstable, Kent.