IN case you thought our 'Bucketful of Booty' in last week's Review about a woman who sold an ice bucket at a boot fair containing the family mortgage money was an April Fool – it wasn't.

A reader from Mitcheldean has written describing how in "an unfocused moment" she hid the emergency house money – £900 in all – somewhere where no one could ever find it, in the bottom of the oven!

On returning from holiday, the money was totally forgotten and a chicken put in the oven to roast. You can imagine the result. Roast chicken and smoking stash (see letters).