Well the homosexuality pen wars look like they are coming to an end on the pages of the Express and Echo. Eventually the sheer weight of indignant and well-thought out letters crushed the odd anti-gay correspondence into the ground. Hoorah! Perhaps the most interesting of the last "outraged Christian" letters was from a Tony Parsons (surely not him???), who wrote an amusingly ridiculous letter. Sadly it only appeared in the print edition and not on the web, which is a shame. However, it looks like the issue has been laid to rest, with the smoking ban now taking over.
I do have one letter to present, taken from the non-more-local Crediton Courier. Margaret Tucker writes, (and I paraphrase as accurately as my memory allows):
On a recent trip to Spain I purchased a lovely pair of sandals. However, I was dismayed on returning home to find that one was a European size 39, whilst the other was a size 37. Obviously I have no hope of returning them, so I was wondering if there is anyone who they might fit. If you are interested, please call...
In UK terms, that means Margaret is looking for someone who has one foot at size 6, with the other at size 4. Now I know physical oddities are not unknown in the villages and parishes of the Crediton district, but surely this is a bit of a long shot.
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