Lucky Waugh
Sir: Auberon Waugh will surely find consolation for the intrusion of the pensioners and the retired into his Somersetshire Arcadia in the fact that while we all contributed throughout our long working lives to buy a little leisure, mobility and independence at the end of them, it is quite a small proportion who actually live to do so. After all quite a number of us who, far into our seventies, still work in cities through the hot summer months to scrape a little foreign currency together to help our country through its perpetual economic and monetary crises, will never have the time for that retirement into the West Country into which Mr Waugh has been privileged to withdraw in his early middle age.
We think him fortunate indeed to dwell in this bucolic environment so soon, even if it is disturbed by pensioners obstructing his car in West Country lanes; or offending his susceptibilities by queuing up for a repayment of a fraction of their lifelong contributions to this welfare state of his and theirs. . in a much depreciated currency. George Edinger, 4 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, London WC1
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