{"id":116053,"date":"2020-05-04T23:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dont-tempt-us-with-forbidden-fruit-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T00:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:02:56","slug":"dont-tempt-us-with-forbidden-fruit-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dont-tempt-us-with-forbidden-fruit-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t tempt us with forbidden fruit | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nRadio 3 Breakfast Singalong | Edna O\u2019Brien\u2019s 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 \u2013 such a release, and a relief.Mark BrackleyFleetwood, Lancashire\u2022 Edna O\u2019Brien, describing the books that made her (Review, 1 May), reveals her love of prayer books as a child. My \u201cbible\u201d 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&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/may\/04\/dont-tempt-us-with-forbidden-fruit\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t tempt us with forbidden fruit | Brief letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong | Edna O\u2019Brien\u2019s books that made her | Courgette conundrum |&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ubP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1167,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/emma-b-my-greatest-mistake\/","url_meta":{"origin":116053,"position":0},"title":"Emma B: my greatest mistake","date":"November 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Things had gone pear-shaped and the Radio 1 announcer was swearing at the newsroom \u2026 her microphone was still onI've built my broadcasting career on errors, but probably my biggest came during my early years at Radio 1. 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