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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Letters

Happy memories of visiting Snowdonia

Dinorwig quarry near Llanberis, Gwynedd.
Dinorwig quarry near Llanberis, Gwynedd. Dr Khosro S Jahdi writes that he spent a happy spring and summer there in 1973. Photograph: Takver/Flikr/CC BY-SA 2.0

May I thank the Guardian for rekindling memories of the spring and summer of 1973 that I spent in Llanberis as a trainee surveyor mainly based in the slate quarry? Helen Evans’ picture of Anglesey Barracks on the letters page (3 November) brought it all back.
Dr Khosro S Jahdi
Leeds

• When are you going to publish a collected edition of Michele Hanson’s wise, brilliant and amusing Tuesday columns (A certain age)? I’m sure there must be a market of the masses of readers for whom her column is the highlight of the G2 week.
Alan Hopkins
Worksop, Nottinghamshire

• The Guardian cost me €2.50 in my local shop this morning. Any chance you’ll revert to the €2 price as sterling falls? Or should I wait until after Brexit when the pound will probably be worth less than a euro?
Alison Hackett
Dun Laoghaire, Ireland

• I cannot believe that you published a letter (7 November) criticising a female politician’s dress sense, which used the words “age-appropriate” (and from another woman too). Isn’t the world a depressing enough place already?
Linda Craig
London

• Shopping in the supermarket yesterday, I saw rows of potatoes in packaging saying “Proudly British”. I had no idea that potatoes cared so much.
Alicia Baker
London

• If Damian Green thinks that depriving the most in need of £2,000 a year is a “real success” (Report, 7 November), I dread to think what his idea of a failure is.
Louise Morrey
Dronfield, Derbyshire

• St Johnstone reached – and won – their first ever Scottish Cup final in 2014, 130 years after they were formed (Chicago celebrates as Cubs end 108-year wait for World Series win, 3 November; Letters, 7 November).
Elvis McGonagall
Stroud, Gloucestershire

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