Letters

"About a quarter of the money you spend on breakfast cereal goes on the cost of persuading you to buy it". Maybe we should persuade advertisers to re-train as teachers, and then we would not be so stupid.
  
  


"About a quarter of the money you spend on breakfast cereal goes on the cost of persuading you to buy it" (Drop That Spoon, June 14). Maybe we should persuade advertisers to re-train as teachers, and then we would not be so stupid.

Kathleen O'Neill

Hayling Island, Hampshire

Lorraine Candy gets it oh so right (Education, Education, Gyration, June 14). I have a daughter of 11 and I, too, can sing along as well as any schoolchild. The full impact of this brainwashing-like musical hit me when I told her that HSM 3 was due out in October. This was met by her slinging down the book she was reading, whooping and bursting into song... from HSM, of course.

Sharon Crawford

Blurton, Staffordshire

HSM hits the stage "in time for the summer holidays"? Maybe in London it does, but it was before the February half term here.

Melanie Marchetti

Stoke-on-Trent

Being homeless isn't a lifestyle choice (Experience, June 14). Robert Grant was a keyholder to a safe refuge, had a job and money to move around and "visit friends". When he'd had enough, he started renting. If you're truly homeless, you will not find employment because you have nowhere to live. You will not find anywhere to live because you don't have a job. You won't be able to spin a "kicked out by girlfriend" yarn to avoid being moved on by the police.

Name and address withheld

I was surprised that Jonathan Jones made no mention of perhaps the strangest thing about the Pantheon - that it has the wrong name on it (Off The Wall, June 14). Inscribed across the front is the name of Hadrian's predecessor, Marcus Agrippa, who built the first Pantheon in 25BC. Was this Hadrian's modesty? If so it must be unique in the history of large buildings.

Laurence Carter

Farnham, Surrey

The views of Jimmy Carter's countrymen are perhaps more complex than many of them "can't stand him" (I Have Moral Authority, June 7). After spending summer 1995 at the Carter Center, I drove from Atlanta to Los Angeles, stopping at a diner in Quanah. A table of ageing ranchers asked how I had ended up in the boondocks. "President Carter may be a Democrat," was their response to my explanation, "but at least he's a fine Christian gentleman."

Edward Welsh

London N1

The Einstein bee story can be tracked back to the 60s (Letters, June 7). Google Books finds it in The Irish Beekeeper journal, which cites it to Abeilles et Fleurs of June 1965 - the house magazine of the Union Nationale de l'Apiculture Française, the same organisation that was spreading the story in 1994.

Ray Girvan

Topsham, Exeter

Tim Dowling's wife sounds awesome. Could she have a column, too?

Alice Eardley

Coventry

I am not a great car enthusiast, but I would have appreciated it if Giles Smith had given some information about the car he reviewed on June 14 rather than indulging in a 544-word rant about the remote key fob he was unable to master.

Steve Holt

Tansley, Derbyshire

In response to Pat Riley's letter (June 14), there will be the opportunity to photograph the dark side of the moon "in situ" on July 3 from the comfort of the back garden in Chard. This can be repeated every 28 days or so, as long as it's not cloudy. That will be when the moon's phase is "new" for the foreseeable future.

Philip Stephenson

Cambridge

My girlfriend and I would be fascinated to know if any readers followed the lead of your model (Fashion, June 14) and bought a £6 bra to go with their £225 knickers? No, really.

Peter Waters

Totnes, Devon

Here's another one:

Stephen Fry,

Will return in July.

Just what he may write

Should be interesting - quite.

Bethan Worthington

Cleveleys, Lancashire

 

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