{"id":115774,"date":"2020-04-22T00:06:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bullfinches-and-robins-take-back-control-of-our-gardens-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:17:31","slug":"bullfinches-and-robins-take-back-control-of-our-gardens-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bullfinches-and-robins-take-back-control-of-our-gardens-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullfinches and robins take back control of our gardens | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMartin Kettle\u2019s pandemic prescience | Bullfinches | Robins | PPE | Unusual children\u2019s namesOur garage toilet doubles as a storage place for literature we struggle to throw away \u2013 like old issues of the Guardian Weekly. On a whim, at the weekend I tunneled into the pile, and read Martin Kettle\u2019s piece from the edition of 1 June 2018, about the dearth of coverage being given to the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu. His closing sentence: \u201cIf something like that happened in the modern world, our present habit of looking in the other direction would seem a catastrophic act of folly.\u201d Bravo, Martin. And Guardian subscriptions for all our leaders, please.Chris ClarkeWellington, New Zealand\u2022 No blossom on the flowering cherry at the edge of our patio, or the amerlanchier, or the damson outside the kitchen window (Carol Ann Duffy leads British poets creating \u2018living record\u2019 of coronavirus, 20 April). The predator? Not a dreadful virus but five bright bullfinches pulling off the buds to get to the grubs beneath. But what a bright and cheerful display!Bill MesserPontrhydfendigaid, Ceredigion Continue reading…
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