Property News · May 4, 2020

Don't tempt us with forbidden fruit | Brief letters


Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong | Edna O’Brien’s books that made her | Courgette conundrum | New verb | San Serriffe and coronavirus | Letter-writing professors Your editorial (4 May) is spot-on, except that you did not mention the Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong on Friday at 8.55am, which is now an essential part of our lockdown week. We can sing our hearts out, and we do, but nobody will ever hear us – such a release, and a relief.Mark BrackleyFleetwood, Lancashire• Edna O’Brien, describing the books that made her (Review, 1 May), reveals her love of prayer books as a child. My “bible” in the 1950s for bedtime reading was to insist that my mother read the Be-Ro recipe book. The gentle rhythm of listing the ingredients and following baking instructions would send me to sleep.Val MainwoodWivenhoe, Essex Continue reading…

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