AFTER reading last week's letters three times I still couldn't understand them.
Yes, Tesco's are said to sell cheap food, but are the ingredients poor, and is it produced by exploited labour, asks one letter. This is not a cue for abuse of the writer, is it? Mr Oates' letter was also incomprehensible, and I look forward to the feed-back.
I think I can interpret Gerald Morgan to Ian Coghlan a little more. He does not live on a shelf in Lydbrook School. He is one of well-know, talented, funny, brave family – obviously with Welsh strengths. The parts of the body that play rugby must be completely Welsh.
When he was a schoolboy the two nearest schools both had Welsh headmasters, although PC or "Percy" really Patrick Kennedy, a Catholic, might fool you. John Phillips was a rugby enthusiast. They are so expert in Wales because they had to use a lump of wood instead of a ball, due to lack of money. The heads were there almost forever, a very stable environment.
Now to me, Gerald Morgan's message is that he would like to see again, small, enclosed, caring groups of people. An English Assembly, even an independent Forest of Dean with our own baseball caps could well be better than what there is at the moment. The trouble is getting people to agree, and, by the way, some people think Rugby League is the much better game, and in Lydbrook, soccer seems to be preferred! – S. Mills (address supplied).