Sir,-A public congrat-ulations and thank you is due to the organisers and sponsors of the 'Friends of Radnor Gardens' Music Day last Sunday. The gardens were absolutely packed right up until the close with families enjoying a great inexpensive day out.

It is a wonderful thing these days to find people willing to give their time towards an effort to help preserve such a well used public garden.

The seven groups playing gave their performances free. Plenty of oriental food was available at reasonable prices as well as the traditional barbecues and ice creams.

Even the bar prices were normal public house prices instead of the usual inflated outdoor function prices. There was plenty of children's entertainment to keep them happy while mum and dad could lie on the grass and listen to the good selection of music.

With the help of the Rugby Football Union and The Eel Pie Club, the Friends have established their day out as one of the major annual events in Twickenham.

Let's hope the event raised plenty for the charities concerned. -Ken Elmes, Bucklands Road, Tedd-ington.

Sir,Well done Friends of Radnor Gardens and especially Ben Makins and Patricia Schooling. Let's hope that the RFU stay involved next year and that this event reaches the type of audience that it deserves and that Radnor Gardens continues to be a part of Twickenham of which we can be proud.-David Mason-Johns,Whitton Road, Twickenham.

Sir,-What a brilliant time we all had on Sunday.

The weather was perfect and the midsummer flower fragrances mingled in the air with Lebanese gold as band after band proved that rhythm and blues and rock and roll is alive and well in Twickenham.

The hippies, mods, teds and rockers of several decades ago threw away their zimmer frames and were transported back to those wonderful open air concerts in Richmond, Sunbury and Hyde Park in the sixties.

Two bits of constructive criticism if I may: when large numbers of old people are gathered and drinking in one place you really do have to make sure that the toilet facilities are in place and working until the end of the day.

Toilets are as vital as beer and Pimms tents to this age group!

The other point is that the stage should be elevated a couple of feet. Once everyone stood up at the front for the last hour it wasn't possible to see the performers from anywhere else in the gardens.

As we all drifted off home for our cup of cocoa, Sanatogen tablets and an early night, one of the world's greatest questions had been answered - can you still be an rock and roller in your fifties, sixties and seventies when you are fat, balding and a bit creaky?

Of course you can. We proved it on Sunday didn't we? Rock on Twickenham!- Alan Winter, Hampton Road, Twickenham.