30 SEPTEMBER 1989, page 27

Coloured Calendar

Sir: A 'yellow' Sunday? Tom Pilkington (Letters, 16 September) obviously did not learn 'There is a Green Hill Far Away' as I did, aged about four. Which is why, I imagine, my......

Blacking Mail

Sir: Ian Dewar (Letters, 9 September) advises a previous correspondent as to how he can deal with the direct mail letters he receives. Better still than going to the trouble of......

Germ Of An Idea

Sir: Mr Richards (Letters, 19 August) says too little in stating that 'there is nothing wrong with "viruses" ' as the plural of "virus" '. Since the word has no plural at all in......

Forgiveness

Sir: John Casey (Test we forgive', 9 September) wrote truly that there is con- fused thinking about crime, retribution and forgiveness. Yet neither he nor the corres- pondents......