Retribution for Lloyd's
Sir: I was delighted to see in your Christ- mas issue that Hew Kennedy's splendid efforts in constructing a trebuchet have finally been recognised ('When pigs do fly', 22/29 December).
It has certainly solved one problem in that we had both been casting around for a large enough forum to have a public horse-whipping of those Lloyd's names agents who have singularly failed their names.
The trebuchet must be set up within throwing distance of Mr Rodgers's Green- house. The agents bound together with strong twine should then be placed in the bucket to the accompaniment of the City of London Madrigal Singers intoning such dirges as 'Sweet Mead Tomorrow' and then hurled at the building.
Those that did not penetrate could be left dangling on the superstructure with the sun glinting on their celluloid collars,
LETTERS
emulating a gamekeeper's vermin display and acting as a warning to the unwary. Donations for this project urgently re- quired before the 1988 losses are known.
Peter Dineley
Aubrey House, Aubrey Walk, London W8
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