Enlightenment at last...

THREE cheers for Ian McMillan: For years I have been wondering how to spell the word “kall”, meaning to chat or gossip, and suddenly it was there in his article (Yorkshire Post, April 12).

When I was young, kalling was a regular pastime when friends met, and was often the source of local and national news. Indeed, stopping for a kall was an accepted pastime in rural areas, even in the busiest times.

Sadly these days, people rarely have time to stop for a kall. When attempting to write the said word myself, I have tended to spell it as “call”, and then explain what I meant. So thank you Ian, you have brightened up what might otherwise have been a dowly day.

Blame Hamas

From: Martin D Stern, Hanover Gardens, Salford.

ROBERT Cartlidge (Yorkshire Post, April 8) is disingenuous when he compares the protesters of Libya with “the same” in Palestine whom he asserts “have suffered for decades of brutal air and military attacks”. While, no doubt, some civilians have been hurt by Israeli action, this has been to a large extent the result of the deliberate policy of the Hamas authorities in Gaza of locating rocket launchers in civilian areas.

Earlier delivery

From: Ruthven Urquhart, High Hunsley, Cottingham.

now we are obliged to pay the equivalent of nearly 10 shillings (50p) to post a first class letter, is there any chance of a first class service in return, ie our mail delivery before lunchtime?

Lighting waste

From GR Allen, Hough Side Lane, Pudsey, Leeds.

I WISH to bring to the notice of Leeds Council tax payers the waste of our taxes when the floodlighting at Crawshaw School, Pudsey, is left switched on through the night.

This is a criminal waste of our funds.