Sorry, everyone

As the son of a woman who survived breast cancer (thanks to the magnificent care given by the now-closed Longmore Hospital) and a long-time sponsor of women's sport, you can imagine my horror at reading the extraordinarily polite notice on the walls of the Moon Walk enclosure at Inverleith Park just ten minutes before I picked up my Saturday copy of The Scotsman, on whose Letters pages I was moaning about the hijacking of our public parks by outside agencies for their own benefit.

It is fair to say that my heart stopped at my ankles, only to wave an ironic goodbye before heading at light-speed for China to add to my shame.

Nevertheless, my cogent point, that our public parks are being taken over for money-making exercises, still stands. Apologies to the Moonwalkers, but to the chefs who previously hijacked my park: this is not the end.

MAGNUS K MOODIE

Boswall Terrace

Edinburgh