Your Letters
15:38 UK time, Thursday, 2 October 2008
I'm astonished that the Daily Mail, of all papers, is advising people to walk through the park and watch children play football. If I, as a middle-aged man, sat in a park watching children play football, how long would it be before a gang of Daily-Mail-inspired vigilantes would assume that I must be a paedophile and set about me with pitchforks and other implements of destruction?
Adam, London, UK
In answer to Tom, Cambridge (Wednesday letters) an eye doctor is an opthalmologist, not an optician. He or she can carry out surgery on eyes whereas an optician measures eyesight and prescribes glasses.
Anne, Chester, Cheshire
Presumably for boys.
David, Hong Kong
"The wife of the former prime minister, one of the country's most prominent QCs, and now an author, is organising the fixing of a flood in her 24-year-old son Euan's new flat. He is away on business in Japan." If Euan , how did he know his flat was flooded?
Martin, Bristol, UK
I am so grateful to the author of without whom I may not have known that pythons were not, in fact, native to Lancashire.
Daniel, London
I see the music publishers are asking for from iTunes. Don't they think it's a bit rich for very short tracks? There's one on Queen's Made In Heaven album which is only 4 seconds long, but is still charged at 79p per download. Is there a shorter or more expensive track out there?
Steve W, Southampton
, perhaps?
Lee Pike, Auckland, NZ
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