Odd case of the fictitious butler

I WAS recently asked at a 
local airport check-in desk if I 
had packed my own suitcase.

When, facetiously, I replied that my butler had done so, the uniformed lady official assured me that in that case there would be no need for the contents to be “searched”.

Now, however, I remain 
utterly confused about this 
highly topical and serious 
security issue (Tom 
Richmond, Yorkshire Post, September 29).

Floored by plea on garden fruits

From: Mrs SM Barnard, North Park Road, Leeds.

OH dear, Rodney Gordon 
has touched a raw nerve with 
his letter (Yorkshire Post, 
October 2) on modern English usage.

In the same publication, we are asked to leave fallen fruits 
on the garden floor for birds. Sadly, although we have a floor 
in our house, we have only 
lawn and flowerbeds in the garden.

And don’t get me started on 
the numbers of rivers that 
have recently burst their banks! Most of those I know, not having raised embankments, just overflow.

Churchill and his ‘black dog’

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Bradford.

BESIDES painting pictures, 
Sir Winston Churchill liked to build brick walls. I believe he 
was bi-polar and no doubt 
these two activities helped him a great deal.

I do not think that the depressive phase of the illness has been better described than 
by Churchill, who called it his “black dog”.