Brawlers are old enough to know better

£25 STAR LETTER

I try not to think about it or I end up feeling sorry for everyone but I feel terrible about young folk going through all of this.

You don’t have many years of not having to worry about anything but having fun and the memories will make you smile for the rest of your life. This horrible virus is taking away all their nights out and festivals. My kids’ kids are teenagers now and my heart goes out to them. It must be rotten.

But it’s not them who are making a fool of themselves now the pubs are opening. I saw a video of a beer garden in Glasgow on its first day open and they were all rolling about the floor fighting and it looked like men and women my age. What an embarrassment.

David Purves, by email

Perry odd indeed

I’ve been watching the new Perry Mason series. It’s a bit hard going at times but I’m quite enjoying it. What I don’t know is what it’s got to do with Perry Mason. Raymond Burr was nothing like this.

S Carr, Edinburgh

Snap happy

The picture on your front page of the nurse being reunited with her son put a smile on my face that stayed there all day. Thank you.

Mrs M White, Perth

Flight delays

Your story about the failure to check passengers arriving in Scotland were going into isolation was an important one and, rightly, ministers were asked to explain why no one was checked for four weeks while the public and MSPs were given the impression they were. None of the explanations I heard seemed to hold water.

Whatever this has meant for the spread of infection, and it can’t have meant anything good, the undermining of our trust is the most damaging thing. If the government can’t be trusted on something as important as this when can we trust it?

I’m sure Nicola Sturgeon and her ministers like to think they are more trusted than Boris Johnson and his. Well that trust has to be earned every day.

Lesley Bannatyne, Glasgow

The sweetest sound

A few weeks ago I read The Sunday Post story about the bagpipes and it reminded me of a visit I had to a war museum in Portsmouth.

In the museum there were letters written by soldiers of their experience during the war.

One soldier wrote that they were completely surrounded by Germans and were just about to surrender when, in the distance, they heard the bagpipes and knew they were safe. The soldier wrote a sweeter sound he had never heard. As I am from Scotland, it made me feel so proud.

Lily Woolgar, Cumbria

Take care of yourself

I was 10 years old when the NHS was set up. In our medicine cabinet we had bandages, plasters, iodine for cuts and olive oil for sore ears, a tin of Germolene ointment and, of course, a jar of Vicks for winter.

We survived. We learned to take care of ourselves. Probably why a lot of us are still around.

Mary Kerr, Girvan