{"id":66756,"date":"2017-09-19T00:49:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/an-ornithology-of-tedious-colleagues-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T01:35:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:35:29","slug":"an-ornithology-of-tedious-colleagues-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/an-ornithology-of-tedious-colleagues-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"An ornithology of tedious colleagues | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWork colleagues | Mary Wollstonecraft | Social housing | Standardised tests | Religious popApropos recent letters about meetings and their effectiveness (Letters, 18 September), I compiled the following ornithology during a particularly tedious occasion. It suggests various species, frequently observable. They are: the red-necked table-thumper; the incorrigible rambler; the inveterate conclusion-jumper; the dismal doubter; the backward harker; the procedural plodder; the uncontrollable joker; the time-insensitive blatherer. I wonder what further species readers would suggest?Roy EvansHarpenden, Hertfordshire\u2022 I was pleased to see Jess Phillips (G2, 13 September) calling for a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft. Local people have been campaigning to have a statue erected at Newington Green where she lived, ran her pioneering school for girls and worshipped at the Unitarian chapel. See www.maryonthegreen.org.Richard KirkwoodLondon Continue reading…
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