Your Letters
11:14 UK time, Tuesday, 30 August 2011
" loses her world heptathlon title to Russia's Tatyana Chernova after failing to make up a 133-point deficit on the final event - the 800m". Lose, fail, deficit - why can't the 91Èȱ¬ congratulate Jess Ennis on her world silver medal and a performance which included personal bests in the shot, long jump and 800 metres?
Alison, London UK
Tuesday: "Complaints of mosquito bites are on the rise in the UK." Thursday: "Net migration [to the UK] rose by 21% last year". Today: "Mosquitoes are disappearing in some parts of Africa, but scientists are unsure as to why." Can you put two and two together?
Colin Edwards, Exeter, UK
This is nothing - I am well renowned for being able to fall asleep, upright, on the dancefloor, holding my pint, and swaying in time to the music. Which, even when animated, is as close as I get to dancing.
Basil Long, Nottingham
How many (fill in nationality of choice) are needed to take a simple photograph? (Monday's Letters) Well, it makes a welcome change from those eternal lightbulbs. Though if the photograph is taken in the dark, maybe one person is needed to act as a flasher.
Raymond Hopins, Kronoby, Finland
Caroline (Monday letters), Muskrat is eaten during Lent to this day in the "downriver" communities of Detroit as the early colonists got a special dispensation with explorer/missionary Father Gabriel Richard officially designating muskrat as a fish because it is a swimming animal.
Heather Simmons, Macomb, Michigan, USA
Caroline: Apparently, Henry VIII decreed that anything that lived in or on the water (geese, swans, beavers, otters etc) were all "fish" as he wanted to be able to eat meat on a Friday. Guess there's no point in being king unless you can re-classify a few animals...
Libby, Coleford, Somerset
Why is caption number five in the caption competition allowed when it's wrong? There were some great alternatives. Picking one that shows the author has no knowledge of musical instruments puts your judges in a bad light. (In case you don't know, it's not a cello).
Hugh, Southampton
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