She heard them in her garden, but was naturally too frightened to confront them.

This lady is 86 years old and is now feeling vulnerable and a bit depressed. So kids, while this may be high jinks to you, please consider the lasting effect it could have on such an elderly lady. Imagine if this was your granny, how would you feel? — F. C., Dundee.

Apparently TV suggestions related to sex will also be strictly forbidden “according to the guidelines”, as will commercials for explosives (not that I would have thought many TNT and dynamite manufacturers are launching advertising campaigns this spring).

Surely this deference displayed by the Polish people is one of the most amazing cases of turning the other cheek ever recorded in human history.

After all, around 70 years ago, hundreds of thousands of the Pope’s fellow German countrymen visited for several years, during which time they bombed, shelled, burnt and bulldozed much of Poland flat, and murdered around one-sixth of the entire population.

Back then the Germans didn’t make any formal request before crashing over the Polish border; they comprehensively failed to comply with the sort of guidelines which, if observed, would have maintained good international relations; and, all-in-all, the thought of causing offence couldn’t have been further from their minds.

All I can say is, what a polite race the Polish are, and despair at how much the trivial has become so very important. — Long Memory, Fife.

Ms Findhorn highlighted one chap was wearing a food-stained T-shirt and no identification. Maybe this chap had just assisted a difficult patient with a meal.

Despite the use of the provided aprons, spillage can occur during feeding and it is not always possible to change immediately.

In my experience staff are generally well presented and do have identification.

Due to the nature of the job, uniforms are no longer the antiquated Florence Nightingale outfit but are designed for maximum comfort to enable staff to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.

If there is any confusion as to their designation then I’m pretty sure the staff would only be too keen to tell Ms Findhorn.

A nurse’s job is hard enough these days with poor pay.

Nurses work long hours in difficult, stressful and hot settings so it is hardly surprising that at the end of a long shift their uniforms aren’t as pristine as when they first put them on.

Its high time the public stopped having a go at NHS staff and begin thanking them for the great job they do. — Scott, Dundee.

The mother states, “The skills they are learning could be used inappropriately in the playground or outside of school.”

This mother, who is a teacher, should tell us why.

I find the idea of the massaging a little revolutionary, but it saves the children sitting at their desks listening to the teacher drone on at story time.

The mother also questions what effects it will have on the children long term, as the sessions are for both boys and girls.

Perhaps the mother would like football banned in playgrounds for fears of physical contact. — Parents Gone Mad.

He reckons this would make boards more accountable and I would agree. I’d like to see the end of failed politicians getting seats on these boards (with expenses).

I note that the Scottish Executive is not backing the Bill. Does that not tell us a lot? — Dundee Reader.

I thought they were there to be punished not pampered.

I remember prisoners had to sew mail bags for a pittance. Why the big change?

No wonder jails are overcrowded.

Many prisoners have never been so well off. — Fed-Up.

It’s time the same happened to smokers outside pubs for throwing away their fag ends. — Ashtray User, Kirriemuir.

New Yorkers love their famous yellow saloon taxis. — E. B., Dundee.

They have Mr Swan coming to Aberdeen to do an interview for their archives programme and would love to have an ex-pupil there too.

Ideally they are looking for someone chatty who doesn’t mind talking on the radio; travel costs etc will be covered and the recording date is either May 29 or 30.

For further information please contact me: Doreen Dowdles at Advice & Services Centre, 7-11 Arbroath Road Dundee (01382 458475).

The charity is appealing to all UK schoolchildren to raise £1 each to run or walk the equivalent of a mile in an organised school event. Participating schools keep 50% of the money for sports activities and the remaining 50% goes to school projects in developing countries.

I do hope all teachers and parents will encourage pupils to take part — not only for their own benefit but for needy children across the world. — Iestyn Thomas, Schoolchildren for Children Founder and Administrator, www.shoolchildrenforchildren.org