Your Letters
16:18 UK time, Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Will your piano end up in the dump? How many "ordinary" people play the piano nowadays? How many modern houses can you fit a piano into? But even trying to get rid of a clapped-out piano is a pain as no one wants one, even for scrap. The operatic society I belong to will tell you. ("A Christmas Carol" in two weeks' time. Tickets still available.) Everyone works with electronic keyboards nowadays. I will get my coat of many colours. It was red and yellow and ochre and peach...
J. Paul Murdock, Wall Heath, West Midlands, UK
Joseph (Tuesday's letters) - it might not be pedantic to point that out but it would be wrong. The moon is gravitationally locked to the Earth, one side always faces us. The phases are causes by the angle between Earth, moon and sun, which does change.
Dave, Greenford, UK
Oooh! Wow! So thrilled to see that I'm not the only one (cf Joseph of London) who remembers Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (they featured the Human Host and the Heavy metal Kids, you know). Now I'm off to find my kaftan and beads - bet they don't fit though!
Paul Morris, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon
A sad final farewell then to the analogue signal and Ceefax. I'm in bits.
Mike, Newcastle upon Tyne
We certainly miss Ceefax. We lost our analogue service years ago, but there seems nothing fast enough to replace it on digital, so we now have to use the internet instead of Ceefax. And I still have a (much begrimed) Channel 4 Bamber Boozler t-shirt (I bet nobody remembers those).
Valerie Ganne, Penarth, UK
John (Tuesday's letters), as salad cream has been stated as the greatest English addition to the culinary world, anything with it must be definition be English food!
James, Cambridge
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