Your Letters
16:05 UK time, Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Re: the demolition of "largely empty" flats - I hope they were in fact very empty indeed.
Tom Colvin, Basingstoke, UK
"Seven Questions on Rain"? I thought I, having become an expert on rain in the last three months, would have scored far higher than an uninspiring four out of seven.
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
Re Cold Callers (letters passim). A friend who lives in a charming old cottage received a telephone call one evening from the call centre of a national kitchen supplier. The caller, obviously reading from a script, asked: "Can you tell me when your kitchen was installed?" "Approximately 1765," he replied, truthfully. There was just the slightest of pause before the caller continued with the script "Well, do you think it's about time it was refreshed with some new doors and drawer fronts?"
Richard Martin, Doncaster, UK
Not quite nominative determinism, but this is a great line: "Some of the Met police recently collapsed at a passing out ceremony from standing up for too long." Textbook.
Jinja, Edinburgh
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