Fully paid-up member

Answering Gerald Blake's letter in the Gazette on Friday, January 22, about pensioners clearing the pavements of snow so people can get to work.

By The Newsroom

Published 1st Feb 2016, 08:23 BST

Updated 1st Feb 2016, 08:24 BST

I started work in 1951, aged 15, until I retired.

Sometimes I worked away from my family for six weeks at a time, all over the country in all kinds of weather, to only have three days at home.

Once I worked in Scotland in the middle of winter for eight weeks before I was allowed home.

You say the tax you pay goes towards paying my pension, it does not. As a lot of other pensioners I am a fully paid-up member of the Tax Office.

As for the snow you talk about, I have seen more icing on a cream cake.

Derek Dowell,