The Sunday Post (Newcastle)

Don’t worry, the birds are still singing

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After the pandemic and lockdown, I didn’t think things could get much worse. I even stopped watching the news because it was just bringing me down.

Things don’t seem to be getting any better though. It’s just one rotten thing after another. We can’t even enjoy a rare day of sunshine any more without worrying about global warming. I’ll keep reading The Post but won’t be watching the news religiousl­y every night. I’ll go for a walk in the park instead and listen to the birds singing.

Jane Simpson, by email

A Scots pioneer

I very much enjoyed the interview with Dilawer Singh [Sunday Post last week]. To have been both Scotland’s first Asian bus driver and police officer is really quite something. Reading between the lines, I am sure he must have endured an awful lot of ignorance and racism but he spoke about his life with such pride and dignity. Maureen Purves, Edinburgh

Bread and better

I’m just getting through my Sunday Post and see the query regarding the lyrics [Your View last week]. I remember having a tape album by Bread about 50 years ago and the lyrics in question are from one of their songs titled If. It’s a really beautiful song.

Frank Gauld, by email

Pensioners’ strike?

Rail strikes, bin strikes and many others are happening or looming and all the workers claim cost of living increases are to blame.

There is one group who can’t take industrial action, namely pensioners. We seem to be the last to be considered and when an increase is given it is just an insult, a pittance. We’ve paid our taxes all our working lives and surely deserve better.

James Walker, Glenrothes

Golden moments

When referring to the last Commonweal­th Games in Australia most people talked of The Gold Coast while I assumed it should be the city Gold Coast (confirmed in The Times atlas).

The only references to the latter I heard were from Scottish runners Beth Dobbin and Laura Muir, who both called the venue “Gold Coast” in their post-race interviews and then, finally, Hazel Irvine during the Games’ closing ceremony. Douglas Mackenzie, Cheshire

From Post to Panther

It was nice to see my hometown Airdrie being described as a vortex of psychedeli­c revelation [David Keenan interview, last week] and also to see The Staging Post pub in the picture. I don’t know if I had any psychedeli­c revelation­s when I drank there as a teenager. We were too busy looking out for any of our teachers. After a while, we started going to The Pink Panther lounge bar, for the town’s sophistica­tes. James Keene, by email

Hat’s all folks?

My family always called ice cream cones “pokey hats” but I said it to my pals and they just looked blank then fell about laughing when I explained. I thought it was a really common thing, but was it just us? Alison Hastie, Glasgow

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