BURSTSurvival skills | Poking Paddington | Counting roadworks | Thelonious Monk | Harry Kane
George Clooney says of his children: “It’s important to me that they can survive,” and invites them to watch his handyman skills around their farm in France, including “fixing … the automated cover for the swimming pool” (Report, 7 October). It strikes me that he and I live in different worlds, with very different definitions both of “survival” and of “farm”.
Fiona Collins
Carrog, Sir Ddinbych
• Like Gillian Greenfield (Letters, 8 October), I used to put the radio on when I couldn’t sleep and often fell asleep to LBC News. Because of its traffic reports, I woke up fully apprised of the progress of the roadworks on Brent Cross flyover.
Mark Redhead
Oxford