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| In his defence of the UK’s state religion (Letters, 14 December), the bishop of Bedford was keen to point out that the National Secular Society’s 7,000-10,000 members would fill two or three of the Church of England’s 42 cathedrals. He should be so lucky. The C of E’s own statistics say those 42 cathedrals get 37,000 people attending services a week – that’s an average of under 900 per cathedral. Clearly not operating at full capacity, eh?Megan MansonGravesend, Kent | In his defence of the UK’s state religion (Letters, 14 December), the bishop of Bedford was keen to point out that the National Secular Society’s 7,000-10,000 members would fill two or three of the Church of England’s 42 cathedrals. He should be so lucky. The C of E’s own statistics say those 42 cathedrals get 37,000 people attending services a week – that’s an average of under 900 per cathedral. Clearly not operating at full capacity, eh?Megan MansonGravesend, Kent |
| • Is there any chance that art and architecture critics will stop saying silly things about light, for example “the magic of St Ives’ famous light” (A year of new dawns, G2, 14 December)? Presumably the light in that Cornish town is roughly the same as at any other location roughly 50º north (or south), give or take the presence of water and a history of a nearby school of painters.Paul MichellBristol | • Is there any chance that art and architecture critics will stop saying silly things about light, for example “the magic of St Ives’ famous light” (A year of new dawns, G2, 14 December)? Presumably the light in that Cornish town is roughly the same as at any other location roughly 50º north (or south), give or take the presence of water and a history of a nearby school of painters.Paul MichellBristol |
| • As Alice O’Keeffe says (Harry Potter and the £4.50 chocolate frog, 12 December), back in the day Harry gifts were hard to come by, so my mother-in-law made our two Potter-addicted children lined velvet cloaks with curtain leftovers, while their father and I created two mini-besoms out of a broom handle and some twigs. I used a gold pen to write Nimbus 2000 on the shaft and, hey presto, our children spent the Christmas holiday, and much of the rest of the year, cavorting around on their broomsticks. Feel free to recycle the idea.Francesca NelsonLondon | • As Alice O’Keeffe says (Harry Potter and the £4.50 chocolate frog, 12 December), back in the day Harry gifts were hard to come by, so my mother-in-law made our two Potter-addicted children lined velvet cloaks with curtain leftovers, while their father and I created two mini-besoms out of a broom handle and some twigs. I used a gold pen to write Nimbus 2000 on the shaft and, hey presto, our children spent the Christmas holiday, and much of the rest of the year, cavorting around on their broomsticks. Feel free to recycle the idea.Francesca NelsonLondon |
| • Twenty-four hours from Stevenage (Letters, 14 December)? I thought it was 24 Hours from Tulse Hill. Or was that only during the tube strikes?Henrietta Cubitt Cambridge | • Twenty-four hours from Stevenage (Letters, 14 December)? I thought it was 24 Hours from Tulse Hill. Or was that only during the tube strikes?Henrietta Cubitt Cambridge |
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