Spring offensive
Sir: Living closer to the centre of the Wen, I should report that nature's counter-attack is further along than J. W. M. Thompson ('Spectator's notebook,' 14 March) may realise, if the squirrels are only throwing sticks out there. Here (near Hampstead Heath), they are battling to take over the communication system. At first they merely cut the telephone wires, but, after two weeks, they were back and had managed to cross the two telephone lines in this house, and surely were listening in with their teeth.
It seems all too likely that this is but a rehearsal for a combined assault, carried out in company with some other less charming rodents, on the electric and water supelies ac I well. I do not think George Orwell was on to Ihe right kind of animal, and I fear that the
rodents of the world are uniting. saying they have nothing to lose but .. .
C. M. E. Franklin 110 West Heath Road, London NW3
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