Old ways the best?

“A day after I sent an urgent email, I was informed by the server that the email could not be sent,” writes a Craigie regular. “The reason was one letter in the address had been mistyped.

“This happens quite frequently with new email addresses,” he says. “Every letter, every number, even every dot must be accurate in every detail, otherwise the email is dead in the water.

“It would not be so bad if email addresses were written in logical, intelligible English, but they are often a hotchpotch of letters, numbers and punctuation marks which make little sense at all, all lower-case and joined together with no rhyme or reason to them.

“Compare that shambles to good oldfashioned letters: they found their destination even with almost no detail in the addresses, such as John Taylor, Rickarton.

“The Post Office sorters knew where Rickarton – not Riccarton – was (Kincardineshore, near Stonehaven) and the local postie pushed his bike to the correct

“This wee robin was looking his/her best in Tentsmuir forest,” says reader Eric Niven of Dundee.