18 OCTOBER 2003, Page 37

Bunny antics

From Ian Mertling-Blake Sir: The designer Bunny Roger, distinguished for conspicuous wartime gallantry, as Gerard Henry reminds us (Letters, 11 October), was also remarkable for retaining exceptional agility into his late eighties. The year after his death, I heard one of his friends up here in Wester Ross reminiscing that only last summer Bunny demonstrated the perfect 'splits' right here, on this lawn.

Ian Mertling-Blake

Wester Ross, Scotland