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UNTIL about an hour or so ago I had fully intended to turn this particular column into an open letter to the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury – a sort of ‘Dear Mr Cameron, or can I call you Dave…’ type of exercise.

THERE’S a young chap who lives not far from Chez Clement who, every time he acquires a new gadget – and his family are obviously aware of this because that’s all he seems to get for birthdays and at Christmas – feels compelled to show me and, after a demonstration of its attributes, explain in detail its advantages over its predecessor’s.

From Alan Le Rossignol. WOW, what a reversal of opinion you reported (JEP, 5 October). Interesting political chicanery. So now the person who approved the Costa Portelet monstrosity is attempting to manipulate the electorate into passing the buck for the fiasco. We are to believe that former Deputy Jerry Dorey’s committee created this ‘terrible mistake’. […]

ALTHOUGH age brings all sorts of complications – I get a little breathless walking round the lanes, even with a bit of French apple juice in my system, and sometimes I forget a few things She asks me to get from the Co-op – it also gives you certain satisfaction that you’ve seen it all before.

WHY is it that our elected representatives only seem to get support for what they say or do when they are opposing – as against proposing – something?