{"id":136632,"date":"2023-05-11T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/for-the-pleasure-of-writing-to-a-friend-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T23:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:11:04","slug":"for-the-pleasure-of-writing-to-a-friend-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/for-the-pleasure-of-writing-to-a-friend-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"For the pleasure of writing to a friend | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nLetter-writing | Royal landlords | Pet names | Low letterboxes | Breakfast pieRe \u201cA moment that changed me\u201d (10 May), Alison Hitchcock\u2019s letters to her friend Brian after he\u2019d been diagnosed with cancer mirror my own experience. In 2016, I wrote to my cousin Shirley, 82, an English graduate who was in hospital, hoping that her daughter would read my letter out to her. Shirley recovered and began to reply. I continued to write fortnightly and am now approaching letter number 195. This correspondence has given us both a great deal of pleasure \u2013 and has certainly improved my grammar.Tom WhiteheadKendal, Cumbria\u2022 The \u201cfeudal\u201d system of leaseholds is not to be abolished, announces Downing Street (Report, 10 May) \u2013 five days after the coronation of a major landlord. Coincidence, obviously.David DuellDurham Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/may\/11\/for-the-pleasure-of-writing-to-a-friend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For the pleasure of writing to a friend | Brief letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Letter-writing | Royal landlords | Pet names | Low letterboxes | Breakfast pieRe \u201cA moment&#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-136632","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-zxK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116053,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dont-tempt-us-with-forbidden-fruit-brief-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":136632,"position":0},"title":"Don&#039;t tempt us with forbidden fruit | Brief letters","date":"May 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Radio 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":170236,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seeing-red-over-the-greens-advocacy-of-buy-the-supply-housing-policy-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":136632,"position":1},"title":"Seeing red over the Greens\u2019 advocacy of \u2018buy the supply\u2019 housing policy | Letters","date":"January 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Bella Sankey responds to a letter from Si\u00e2n Berry and urges her to pay more attention closer to home I was surprised to see Si\u00e2n Berry (Letters, 9 January) advocate that Labour \u201cbuy the supply\u201d of landlord homes as a way of increasing the stock of social housing. 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