Why I still hate barbecues

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

JENNIFER Bookbinder doesn’t see the connection between my love of rain and my hatred of car boot sales, garden fetes and barbecues (Yorkshire Post, May 10). What is a letters page if not a place for grumpy old misanthropes like me to air their prejudices? All right then, Jennifer, boot sales and garden fetes are okay and I would add that they usually serve charitable causes, though the former can be a convenient outlet for goods of dodgy provenance. However, I stand by my unqualified condemnation of “BBQs”, as the initiated call them. The stench of kerosene and scorched flesh has all the appeal of a plane crash. And why is it the bloke – it’s always a bloke – who has never cooked a proper meal in his life who rushes to don the apron?

Education’s priorities

From: Peter R Hyde, Kendale View, Driffield, East Yorkshire.

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IT is hardly surprising that graduates are having to take low paid jobs (Yorkshire Post, May 12). In these days of recession, who will be willing to take a young person who has a degree in the arts or literature to do a senior clerical post or indeed a junior management position?

Many of them have problems with grammar due to excessive use of text messages. Many have no idea of time keeping. The problem is that higher education is seen as the goal but lacks the perception of the needs of trade and industry.

Courtesy in the Commons

From: Peter Clegg, Brookside, Witton Gilbert, Durham.

JAYNE Dowle attacked David Cameron for what he said to a female MP in the House of Commons (Yorkshire Post, May 2).

I have no wish to champion the Prime Minister, but perhaps if Ms Eagle had had the courtesy to listen to what the PM was saying instead of barracking him, the so-called offensive put-down would not have been used.