Your Letters
15:56 UK time, Thursday, 8 February 2007
Two inevitable truths about living in this country. It will rain on May Day bank holiday, and we will have transport problems when it snows. You failed and went with the boring predictable "Heavy snow causes travel problems", instead of "UK wake up to beautiful scenes - ditch off work and make a snowman". Yawn. Come May, could you run with "Wellys and macs to the ready - it's time to splash around with the ducks"?
Tom, Birmingham
Apparently Many are planned, so the caption tells us. I would hope they are! Nothing worse than an accidental house. Perhaps there was a lot of unprotected building at Christmas?
Andy Calvert, London
Re: Daily . Well I know that bringing my pet snake into work would ease my stress, but I'm not so sure it will have the same effect on my colleagues.
Johnny Fitzgerald, Leeds, UK
With regards today's I work from home and have to shut the cats out of the office, or I have the stress of them walking between me and the screen, or across the keyboard, or sitting on printers which have plastic bits designed to support a few sheets of paper. In an office I can imagine taking a pet in might help the owner, at least until they end up chasing it as it decides to go and explore. It would certainly stress their colleagues with allergies.
Ed, Clacton, UK
The Times has found a useful unit of area for things that are too big to be measured in football pitches and too small for Wales. They describe the site of the Terracotta Army as covering "an area the size of Cambridge".
How many Cambridges make a Wales?
David Freeman, Epsom Downs, UK
Lucy Jones of Manchester- to paraphrase Basil Fawlty, I always know that the wine is corked if the waiter manages to get it out of the bottle and into my glass.
K Walker, Runcorn, U
What is this "vacuuming" of which you speak?
Alex "Neanderthal" D, Southampton, UK
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