LETTERS : Bear facts

Now if Janet Leigh had turned the chair to find Norman Bates's teddy instead of his mother's corpse in Psycho, perhaps Cosmo Hallstrom's curious views ("Transitional objects for middle-aged men", 22 January) might bear (sic) scrutiny.

As the adoptive father of 14 teds (actually 10 teds, three rabbits and a pig), I have not yet felt like stabbing to death someone in the shower.

The teds and I do, however, share a mutual loathing of people called Cosmo. As for the Prince of Wales tucking his ted's paws in at night - what could be more caring?

N S Meadows Haslemere, Surrey