The snake curled up in a pile of leaves on Hampstead Heath

• FURTHER to the discovery of a snake on Hampstead Heath, (Walkers given a ssshock! October 28):

Finding the python was not plain sailing,
A newsy item, just Daily Mailing?
Or Monty’s Flying Circus
Sent to amuse us
And, terrified, was Michael paling?

HOWARD RICHARDS
Fitzroy Road, NW1