MEETING place

Welcome to the heart of the magazine. If you’ve got a funny story to share, need to let off steam or have a picture you’re proud of – get in touch. You could end up on the UK’s biggest letters pages.

Sweet humour!

I was walking through a market place when, while passing a sweet stall, a lady in front of me started coughing loudly. The stallholder popped up from behind the counter and with a cheeky grin on his face shouted ‘plenty of cough sweets’! G Young, Bristol

Star therapy

When I’m worried about some particular problem and I can’t shake off that mood my ‘therapy’ is to go outside in the garden for a while on a clear night for an hour or so and gaze at the stars. Twinkling so wonderfully from countless light years away I say to myself, ‘Look, these stars were there millions of years before I even existed and will be there millions of years after I’ve gone so why worry about anything at all!’ Somehow that train of thought makes me feel better and my worries vanish for a while – until I need more ‘star therapy’ in the garden.

Happy knitter

I knitted this lovely cardigan for my greatniece from a pattern in a recent issue of Yours. I am so delighted with it that I thought I’d send you a photo! Many thanks for a lovely pattern. Joan Farmer, Leicester

Wonderful NHS

I want to say a big thank you to the wonderful NHS. I became poorly recently and after calling 999, a paramedic was sent out who decided I needed to go to hospital. He and the ambulance crew who looked after me were so reassuring. Then at Peterborough hospital I got wonderful care. The staff were so friendly and the A&E unit spotlessly clean. Luckily I was able to return home the same day. Too many people complain about the NHS, but not me. They are under a lot of pressure but I was looked after wonderfully. J Jibb, Stamford Sharon says: Do you have any stories of great care from the NHS? Write to us at the Yours address

Table transformation

This is a picture of an old garden table I had and refurbished. I painted the legs and edges with plastic outdoor paint then, when shopping in Lidl, I noticed 2m of felt that looked like grass for around £7. I cut it to the size of the table and glued it on. I then bought a length of daisy chain at a haberdashery and glued them on with a glue gun. There was enough to do another old table the same and in all it cost about £20. I am very pleased with the results. Now I’m looking forward to another project! Marilyn Lindsay, by email

No more back row cinema!

When my husband and I went to the cinema recently, instead of sitting in the back row so that we could have a little cuddle like we used to do, we sat in the front row so that we could actually see and hear the film! I think that age may have finally caught up with us! Judith Clark, Merseyside

Thank wool!

I want to thank readers who responded so generously to my request for DK wool for knitting blankets for patients at the Addis Ababa Fistula hospital who do wonderful work in Ethiopia. The patients are given a blanket when they leave the hospital, cured, before returning to their remote villages. Patricia Thompson, Birmingham

Misheard song lyrics

Reader Linda Keen’s recent letter about misheard song lyrics prompted many of you to write in with your own examples… Imagine my friend’s amusement when, as a teenager, I mentioned that I loved George Harrison’s song My Sweet Laura. Of course it’s Lord! Allyson Curtis, Chesterfield A few days before Christmas, our office were discussing our favourite carols when someone said that Away in a Manger had always puzzled her – “Why were the cattle glowing?” It brightened my day (get it) no end! Sally Gratwick, Barton upon Humber I thought that the line, ‘Couldn’t spend all my life down at heel’ in Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, was ‘couldn’t spend all my life down a field’. Diana Baxter, Derby For years I liked the song Ramona and used to sing it, including the line, ‘We’ll meet beneath a waterfall’. Then I saw the sheet music to it one day and realised it was, ‘We’ll meet beside a waterfall!’ Marjorie Cantwell, Dublin

My Roger Moore moment

I was so sad to hear of the recent death of Roger Moore. I’ve been a fan ever since I was a little girl and saw him in The Saint more than 50 years ago. I have a lovely memory of meeting him in 2008. He was signing his book My Word is My Bond in an Oxford bookshop. Over the years I’ve collected loads of things about him, including a few original knitting patterns he modelled for. In the picture above, I’m delivering the pattern, which he thought was hilarious. I was so chuffed to meet him and I had that grin on my face for the rest of the day. What a lovely man. Andrea Fry-Bailey, Abingdon Sharon says: Yours Retro 7 (on sale July 27) includes a feature about Roger Moore in The Saint

Born Free surprise

Reading the recent article on Born Free and seeing the lovely pictures of Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna and the lion who played Elsa brought back precious memories for me. My first Saturday job as a teenager was working as a stock records clerk for Safeway supermarket in Leigh and I worked alongside Bill’s brother Kenneth Linden-Travers! He was tall, handsome and such a gentleman. He looked very much like his brother Bill. I’ve never forgotten him and that was more than 50 years ago! Mrs Turatti, Nottingham

Hedgehogs and milk

The photo in Meeting Place from a reader showing two hedgehogs drinking her cat’s milk was nice, but please can you point out that hedgehogs are lactose intolerant and milk is very bad for them. By email Thank you to all readers who wrote to us about this