Your Letters
15:33 UK time, Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Re: Health warning to festival goer. What really? And do you mean that driving fast and carelessly causes car crashes? And ice is slippery? Wow! Thank you for this astounding insight.
PollySaxon, Lichfield
Re: How do you stop mobiles in concerts? I'm a penniless student (cue violins) going to university in September (hopefully). I'm very passionate about classical music and I'm putting money aside to go to a Covent Garden opera production next year. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me, at least for the foreseeable future, and somebody texting next to me would seriously detract from the experience. That's not elitism, it's simply wanting to be able to make the most of a very rare opportunity. They can check their phone when they leave, I can't go to another performance a couple of weeks later. I'll get my baton...
Rob Orme, Winsford, Cheshire
How do you stop mobiles in concerts? The singer Regina Spektor stops mid-song to yell at people who are talking, singing along or on their phones!
Laura Hampson
"It includes an aerial runway, a mega-basket swing, outdoor fitness equipment, a jungle climber and web traverse/balance equipment." Whatever happened to a couple of swings, a slide and maybe a see-saw?
Basil Long, Nottingham
The penguin in "Emperor penguin from Antarctic visits New Zealand beach" is clearly male - miles from home but just carries blindly on in the hope that he'll recognise something.
Lewis Graham, Hitchin
In the interest of pedantry, I demand that the name of this section is changed to reflect the inclusion of 'how' questions.
MF, London
Re: Tim Henman (Tuesday's Letters) - it's still not much use having a tennis court in your back garden if you haven't got anyone decent to play against!
Nicola, Brighton
My father's surname was Crook (Tuesday's Letters). He worked for the Bank of England. At one time he was on the Bristol Crime Prevention panel with another Mr Crook (a local businessman) and the Chief Constable - name of Twist. And my mother (who hated her name of Ada) used to sign her cheques "A.Crook".
Susan.Thomas, Brisbane, Australia
Oh! Oh! Nights are drawing in. Time to get the sprouts on for Christmas.
Graham, Purmerend
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