Gee Whizz, Dave...You drove me nuts on the BBC as 'Folky Grim' but you drive me even more nuts over here, with your campaign to undermine me, my kids, my outlook on life.

Never ever used "Folky Grim". You are clearly thinking of someone else.

I am delighted at your daughter's success - as I am with all the people I have taught. I am always disappointed with those who do not succeed - but I and the rest of the teaching profession aren't perfect.

What I have asked time and time again - without success I might add, is that you share the way you have brought up your children with people who work in this field so that we can all benefit from it, since you clearly believe that you have been succesful and you have made it very very clear - much more succesful than the teaching profession.

By sharing I mean - how you have taught reading, writing, and so on. Maybe you never taught it and your children learnt it by osmosis. Maybe you don't feel that they needed to read and write and didn't bother. All I ask is that you share this with us.

Did you structure the day to make sure certain subjects or learning was covered for example. Having an unstructured day or having a partly structured day or having no structure at all.

Of course you don't have to share your secrets with anyone.

But don't you think that is a little selfish since it is clear that lots of people would (presumably) benefit.