GLORY Hallelujah, at last something Tom Scaife is in favour of, baptism in a leafy glade (The benefits of a natural cathedral, Letters, April 14).

We had to wade through all his dislikes about people who have any kind of authority, but we got there. Is he a secret hippy?

I thank him for his tip about coppicing hazel, I believe it makes it stronger.

Hazel Ward, Badger Hill, York.