DURING a recent visit to my favourite holiday county, Cornwall, I spent a day in Mevagissey.

As I walked around the quayside with my partner, filling our lungs with bracing ozone, I stopped in my tracks outside the Harbour Master's Office bemused at the notice on the wall of the building directed at seaborne visitors giving mooring charges for their craft.

I enclose a photograph of the notice in question, right, which will raise the eyebrows of the natives, let alone foreign visitors.

I suppose someone believes in giving it to them straight in good old plain English and let them use their slide-rules to work it out!

For Mevagissey read Gobbledegook.

IVAN E RICKWOOD

Eldene