G'day English Patriot,

To be blunt: You are disbled: I am not. You have to "overcome" your disablities. I do not.

Put you money where your mouth is. Come to New Zealand, and climb Mt Cook. A couple of my mates did in 1982 - got caught in a crevasse for a couple of weeks, gotfrostbite and ended up legless. Like you, I'm 'abled' so get legless at the Pub. Both my mates have summitted Mt Cook minus legs - come and do the same with your undisabled legs.

In the early hours of this morning our NZ Wireless gave an hour compendium of last weeks kid's programmes. T'was a yarn "To the Max" written and narrated by Mark Inglis . Hr described is titanium legs that helped him win silver at the Paralympics in Sydney. Phil Doole

One or other of those two blokes will top Everest - but what the hell - they're "disabled" - like the Paralympiads - who have more guts and determination than I do...

Cheers - Sam