In a recent column there was the popular question: “Please recommend a car for the school run". Whilst I accept that some of your readers live in rural areas, many don’t. Therefore, might I suggest that a better question should be: “Can you recommend a good pair of walking shoes and/or a suitable bicycle for the school run?” That way the NHS spends less tacking the effects of obesity, we have more healthy children, and the chaos of the ‘school run’ in towns and urban areas becomes a distance memory.