In praise of Blackbird Leys - it's just a place where people live like any other town or city.

There's good and bad, but the good is excellent.

Take Longlands Nursing Home as an example, where small miracles are an everyday thing, where care and love are the rule rather than the exception.

The staff are wonderful, caring for older folk and dealing with all the ailments that come with old age that most of us could never deal with.

So I say look around you.

A lot of these devoted staff are tenants of Blackbird Leys.

The place is full of good things and the best people, and this is only one part of it.

Victoria Baker, Girdlestone Road, Headington, Oxford