It occurred to me when reading Alice O’Keeffe’s article (Boys’ fashion: grey, joyless and far too dull, 29 September) that perhaps the prevalence of dull, dark clothes for boys including school uniforms is why my eight-year-old grandson can’t wait to change into his brightly coloured Liverpool FC strip whenever he can. His current favourite is the bright yellow home goalkeeper shirt, shorts and socks. He is not, of course, alone and I see many boys out and about in their team’s bright colours, though I do realise it would probably not do for a wedding.
Jennifer Wild
Crosby, Merseyside
• Peter Harrod appends to his picture of cattle on a footpath near Cambridge the observation: “There can’t be many places where you can encounter a cow just a mile from the city centre” (Letters spread, 1 October). Cattle graze all year round on Newcastle Town Moor, 1,000 acres of grassland adjacent to the city centre and surrounded by suburbs.
Peter Lowe
Newcastle upon Tyne
• Yes, Jefferson Airplane with electric instruments got rained off at the 1970 Bath Festival (Letters, 2 October). But they were followed by a wonderful acoustic set by the Byrds and then by Dr John The Night Tripper, who did a ritual dance and the rain stopped…
Geof Branch
London
• Wonderful to read Leonard Cohen’s lyrics in the Guardian Review (29 September). Does this herald the return of the much-missed Saturday poem?
Lynne Taylor
Cliviger, Burnley, Lancashire
• Slut is a synonym of strumpet, so we on The Archers Usenet newsgroup call male sluts “strombones” (Letters, 29 September).
Nick Odell
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
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