I am enjoying your collection of Guardian superlatives over the past 200 years. How about the best predictions? Here is my own: in late 1989/1990 the then diary columnist, Andrew Moncur, asked readers to submit their ideas for captions to photos that were unlikely ever to happen. I was one of a select few to win a bottle of champagne for “Demonstrators spill over into Holyrood park as they protest outside parliament.”
Sally Cheseldine
Balerno, Edinburgh
• My introduction to being a regular Guardian reader (Letters, 12 May) began when I saw my mother quoted on the front page of the 13 January 1971 edition. She was a witness to a bomb blast at the Barnet home of a government minister. By a twist of fate, I was portrayed on the front cover of Weekend magazine 34 years later, on 31 December 2005, emerging from the tunnel at King’s Cross tube station following the London bombings in July that year.
Susan Baillie
Weymouth, Dorset
• Kevin Towers’ letter (9 May) reminded me of the painting by Patrick Procktor called The Guardian Readers that was on the cover of Elton John’s 1976 double LP. The album’s title reflects the mood of Labour party supporters last weekend: Blue Moves.
Jon Corfield
Birmingham
• As a Guardian reader of 60-plus years and a member of a bell-ringing family, I hope you will be keen to hear that a team of ringers rang a quarter peal for the 200th anniversary of the Guardian.
Michael Howes
Caversham, Reading
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