Following Giles Fraser’s excellent article (Money is the only God Tories want us to worship on a Sunday, 11 July), may I propose that we now rebrand as Sunday as “a day of contentment”. This would not only emphasise the benefits of connecting to and enjoying the natural world and the company of friends and family, but also provide an opportunity to truly enjoy, use and benefit from the material possessions we already have. This might also provide a useful antidote to the commercial pressures which build a constant sense of wanting things that we don’t need and of needing things that we don’t want.
Dr Steve Williams
Guisborough, North Yorkshire
• Peter Bradshaw rightly refers to Omar Sharif’s appearance in Lawrence of Arabia as “one of the greatest entrances in movie history” (Report, 11 July). However, that famous scene also has the distinction of being the only one in the history of cinema which features both Blur and Oasis.
Brendan O’Brien
Waterford, Ireland
• Our local blackbird sings the opening refrain from an 80s song, Sade’s Your Love Is King (Letters, 9 July). He has been doing this for the last three years. This year has been very different, because two other birds have started using his tune. One starts and the others join in, making a curious echo system from three different directions. It is possible that the new ones are his sons. He has a wonderful repertoire of other tunes, but comes back to Sade very often.
Mike Engles
London
• A particularly sadistic blackbird here sings I’m a Barbie Girl all summer long. I find myself whistling the damn thing. Help!
Bill Sample
Pontesbury, Shropshire
