Speaking as a "tight-fisted curmudgeon" - Chris Robins's description in his reply to my previous letter - I see he hasn't read the letter thoroughly enough to notice that I am in the age group I am complaining about!

We 'baby-boomers' - born in the mid to late 1940s, who are now entering our 60s - appear to want it all.

As I said before, we claim to be middle-aged when it suits us, but old when anything is going free!

I suppose Mr Robins will now see me as a 'grumpy old woman'!

CHRISSIE LAKE Jubilee Terrace Oxford