Your Letters
16:06 UK time, Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Russian spy claims shock father is a bit irrelevant. If I was a spy, I'd hope my dad wouldn't know anything about it, otherwise my skills of being a spy would be a bit rubbish.
Tom Webb, Surbiton, UK
I've just hit the first of the season.
Michael Hall, Croydon, UK
You asked Where were you when you first heard about John Lennon's death? Eight and a half months pregnant with first child - who is now also a Jon Lennon fan.
Pauline Elliott
Getting ready for work where later we lit candles in the staff room.
Simon Midgley
Playing wall-ball in the playground before school started. Never been a fan but do remember clearly being told the news by a classmate.
Rob Lowery
Paper Monitor accuses the MP in the Russian Spy Beauty story of poor taste because he was wearing a "Lurid Pink Jumper". Is this the same young Monitor who, not 12 months ago, presented me with a Pink Cardigan which was at least part way along the Lurid spectrum, and the previous year a "Winter Scene Sweater", the pattern of which included a Red-Nosed Reindeer and who has this year, according to family gossip, already procured for me a "Baby Blue Jersey" in size XL, when you know I'm no more than an L? Still, it's the thought that counts - keep the receipt and give it to your mother.
Mr Monitor (Senior), Mayfair, London
Monitor note: [crushed look] But... Dad... you said you liked that sweater. It brought out Mother's eyes...
Re Do trees make people happy, how apposite that the comment about how much it costs to maintain trees and how many complaints they cause is posted by Janette Sadgrove.
Ray, Turku, Finland
Patrick from Singapore's letter about English words borrowed from the Welsh (Monday letters) . For a better example of an English word borrowed from Welsh, may I suggest "corgi" (from the Welsh words "cor" meaning dwarf, and "gi" (soft mutation of "ci" meaning dog). How's that, Patrick - tidy?
Helene Parry, S Wales expat to Brentford
I intend to borrow Bee Bee Cee's (Monday letters) approach after 2012: I'll inform ungrateful South Africans that rain and queues made the Olympics uniquely British.
Edward Green, London, UK
What did the first snowman say to the second snowman? "Can you smell carrots?"
Susan, Newcastle
Monitor note: Oh Susan, with that joke you're really spoiling us.
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