The traffic makes it impossible for kids to reach the tree.
I was interested in the Tele story that Dundee’s Christmas Lights are to cost £252,500. I doubt Lochee’s will cost that.
A reader wrote to the Tele some time ago saying there was more light from a broken gas mantle in a garret stair than came from Christmas lights on Lochee’s High Street.
Since this letter appeared, two new lights have been added to the four existing decorative lights making it six. Can we expect another two this year?
For years kids went up to the Christmas tree in the city square and made a wish. You can’t let them do that in Lochee, because the tree is situated on a traffic island. — C. A. Walker, Lochee.
Still sceptical
Councillor Joe Morrow, Convener of the Economic Development Committee on Dundee City Council, says the quarter of a million earmarked for the city’s Christmas lights is to meet the costs of replacing damaged or missing bulbs, and to cover the bill for putting up and taking down the display.
However, I still fail to see how this cost could be justified and I am still sceptical of spending a sum like that, particularly at a time when many workers in the city have lost their jobs due to factory closures.
Let’s have a breakdown of these costs. — Pamela.
Added insult to injury over laptop
In July my daughter bought a top-of-the-range laptop from a well-known chain. At the same time she was encouraged to purchase the latest Norton anti-virus security software.
After only two months the computer slowed down terribly and would not display graphics. She took it back to the vendor as it was still under guarantee.
She was told that it was probably a virus connected to downloading from Lime Wire. Upon pointing out that Norton should have detected this she was told that sometimes it did not work with this application, yet at no point during the sale of the software was this information imparted to her.
To add insult to injury they refused to sort it under guarantee and told her she would have to pay £30 to have the problem corrected, which she declined.
Needless to say this is one store which will receive no more business from us. Once they have your money they are not interested. — Sandra Connor.
Gone very quiet
The Tele recently printed numerous letters taking umbrage with Alex Salmond over his comments about Margaret Thatcher.
Why then have these same people gone very quiet regarding Gordon Brown’s invitation for Margaret Thatcher to lunch with him at Chequers?
You would think if they were consistent they would be queuing up to attack the Prime Minister for his second meeting with her and his continued defence of her policies. — Political Connoisseur.
Found bag
If the teenage boy who left a red carrier bag in McDonald’s, Reform Street, Dundee phones me with a description of the contents, I’ll arrange its return. — 01382 520667.
Soldier song
There was a song written in the 50s called A Letter To A Soldier.
I haven’t been able to discover who wrote it, but I believe it was a woman.
Here’s the song:
A letter to a soldier that I have scarcely known
A letter to a soldier with no one of his own
Some mail for him to open while others get their share
To show him there’s someone who cares somewhere
A letter to a soldier who’s half a world away
The day that it was written was my red-letter day
And that is how it all began and how it’s going to be
A letter to a soldier coming home to marry me.
— Reader.
No concession
We were looking forward to seeing the Mill Lavvies again, but at £16 per ticket, and no concessions, we cannot afford it.
Such a shame considering that the original show was packed with pensioners like us who had worked in the mills. — Mr and Mrs Stoory Hair.
It’s a scandal, ma’am
I am really surprised to read the Queen needs more money as she has a mind to buy an aeroplane at the cost of £7m, just for her use. I thought that she had one in the Queen’s Flight for her use. We all know that some of the Royals were taking it for their own personal use at the taxpayers’ expense. When you consider that the working class who pay for her keep are only being offered 2.5% of an increase it is a scandal. — Jimmy Borland, Dundee.
Few morals
I watched the TV programme on the subject of teenagers staying pure until marriage. I found the whole thing a bit weird.
On the other side of the coin many of the youth of this country have few morals. This country has the highest teen pregnancy and single mothers and this is not something of which to be proud.
Who is to blame? I say the parents. They allow the child to do as they please from an early age and the word “no” is never taught. — So Sad.
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