SIR — It can be easy to feel aggrieved these days ("Horse riders take note" in Your Letters March 1) when one is aware of much thoughtless and inconsiderate behaviour around us, though I hasten to add this comment is not directed at any horse riders.

I expect your correspondent was relieved and amused to read the correspondence from Julie Dare and M Brooks last week in Your Letters explaining that the "culprits" making a bit of a mess of the easy access path at Webbers Post are most probably our little Exmoor ponies!

On the Crown Estate there are some smart new signposts, and I was recently annoyed to see one particular post cruelly split with one of its three finger-posts smashed and strewn upon the gound.

It was soon repaired but vandalised twice more.

I noticed the most recent repair involved some solid nails hammered in to keep everything in place! I also noticed a few small clumps of brown horse hair attached to the well-rounded nail heads.

My annoyance turned to smiles, particularly as the clever little ponies always seem to be watching and grazing innocently some way from this signpost whenever I walk by!

Perhaps the Crown Estate should provide some itching posts for these ponies, as the National Trust has done at Webbers Post, because there is now very little left of the signpost I have mentioned - they've just done it again!

Ros Robinson,

Bratton Lane,

Minehead.