RELIEF washed over me with the realisation (Evening Press, September 11) that Julian Cole will not be swanning around Goa incognito, cultivating a long beard, strumming a sitar and swallowing copious quantities of Honey Bee brandy.

I, for one, would simply never recover if Julian took to the hippie life beneath the hot Indian sun.

Margaret Lawson,

Aldborough House,

The Groves,

York.

Updated: 10:29 Wednesday, September 17, 2003