I don't believe it. After all that domestic drivel from Helen Mead, we are now to be subjected to the "Diary of a Househusband", (January 7).

It is really quite incredible that the Evening Press should think readers are interested in the mindless tale of nappies, ill-mannered screaming children and the jam butty mentality.

If your children subject you to a "shower of demands, intermingled with a hearty dose of verbal abuse" then as a parent you have failed.

But of course, we all know that this feeble rubbish is only a weak-kneed attempt to be amusing. The children of Allan Clews are, in all probability, well educated and decent young citizens, who have conspired with dad to justify this column-filling nonsense. Nonetheless, it is a complete waste of space.

Robert Holmes,

Thorganby, York.

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