Dear Ed,
Every month I scrape together 40p to invest in "The Bradworthy News"'. I consider this to be reasonable value for money, as I enjoy many of the articles published and I sometimes enjoy your very own editorial which I'm sure enriches us all if only we could understand it. I digress.
Anyway, having bought the BN, I would rush home, make a few cakes from Kookery Komer, make some coffee and sit down to read it. I also had ready a pen and a dictionary. Yes, you've guessed, I was ready to attempt the crossword. (For all newcomers to Bradworthy, we used to have a Crossword.) Where is it? Admittedly, I could never finish it, and I was lucky if I could start it. I realised a long time ago that the compiler came from the same School of Logic as your good self. Yet I feel cheated, as I suspect many others do.
I have approached you on this subject many times, but you fob me off saying 'the compiler is far too busy'. Well let me tell you, he's never too busy to go to the local hostelry, he should be at home getting to grips with his lexicons and thesaurus. I mean, what does this man do all day?
So Ed, I hope for future BNs we can all, once again, enjoy not being able to do the crossword for many years to come.
Yours sincerely, Ann Gree