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| Your obituary for Harry Dean Stanton (18 September) mispunctuates the title of the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel by substituting a comma for the dash. This had a curious effect on the list of TV horse operas Stanton acted in: “Laramie, The Gun, Have Gun, Will Travel, Bonanza and Rawhide.” Even the Oxford comma, which coincidentally played a part in Sunday’s episode of Strike, can’t come to our rescue with that one, though it could have helped with Bonanza and Rawhide.Hugh DarwenWarwick | Your obituary for Harry Dean Stanton (18 September) mispunctuates the title of the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel by substituting a comma for the dash. This had a curious effect on the list of TV horse operas Stanton acted in: “Laramie, The Gun, Have Gun, Will Travel, Bonanza and Rawhide.” Even the Oxford comma, which coincidentally played a part in Sunday’s episode of Strike, can’t come to our rescue with that one, though it could have helped with Bonanza and Rawhide.Hugh DarwenWarwick |
| • Boris Johnson must know that birds do not sing in the nest (Report, 20 September). It is a place of secrecy and security. It is the immature that call out, eager to be fed. This is especially true if an over-sized cuckoo is among them, ensuring that they are ejected and crash to the ground below.Dick CurtisGloucester | • Boris Johnson must know that birds do not sing in the nest (Report, 20 September). It is a place of secrecy and security. It is the immature that call out, eager to be fed. This is especially true if an over-sized cuckoo is among them, ensuring that they are ejected and crash to the ground below.Dick CurtisGloucester |
| • Now that dance and building have been confirmed as the two fundamental arts (Letters, 19 September) can we hope for a weekly G2 feature where dancing about architecture is actually a thing?Richard LeeLeigh-on-Sea, Essex | • Now that dance and building have been confirmed as the two fundamental arts (Letters, 19 September) can we hope for a weekly G2 feature where dancing about architecture is actually a thing?Richard LeeLeigh-on-Sea, Essex |
| • Perhaps it is a coincidence that after a monster fatberg is found inside a London sewer (How to win the battle against ‘sanitary’ waste, Letters, 19 September), the Swiss have encountered a similar problem (Cash in the pan: wads of €500 notes block Swiss sewer pipes, 19 September).Richard HollisSt Albans,Hertfordshire | • Perhaps it is a coincidence that after a monster fatberg is found inside a London sewer (How to win the battle against ‘sanitary’ waste, Letters, 19 September), the Swiss have encountered a similar problem (Cash in the pan: wads of €500 notes block Swiss sewer pipes, 19 September).Richard HollisSt Albans,Hertfordshire |
| • The world of ornithology describes meeting attendees (Letters, 19 September). How can it be that your observant writers missed the judgmental twitcher in the corner?Sally WardBoston Spa, West Yorkshire | • The world of ornithology describes meeting attendees (Letters, 19 September). How can it be that your observant writers missed the judgmental twitcher in the corner?Sally WardBoston Spa, West Yorkshire |
| • Andrea Hosker’s letter (18 September) did cause me to search the recycling bin, as I had missed Nancy Banks Smith’s A Month in Ambridge. I haven’t laughed so much for ages. She and John Crace are the ideal antidotes to all the worrying news we are having to contend with at the moment.Gill EmpsonEdwinstowe, Nottinghamshire | • Andrea Hosker’s letter (18 September) did cause me to search the recycling bin, as I had missed Nancy Banks Smith’s A Month in Ambridge. I haven’t laughed so much for ages. She and John Crace are the ideal antidotes to all the worrying news we are having to contend with at the moment.Gill EmpsonEdwinstowe, Nottinghamshire |
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