The summit of bad examples

Jul 12 2008 by Sue Bardon, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

IT really beggars belief that Gordon Brown had the gall, just before attending the annual G8 summit, to tell us all not to waste so much food in order to help world poverty.

It was then reported – and pictures published – that they all stuffed their faces with a very lavish meal, plus all the trimmings.

We may ask: Do and will they ever lead by example? Wouldn’t a good idea have been for all of them, to have “fasted” for one week before attending.

The menu would be onion soup, one Spam sandwich, two digestive biscuits and a glass of clean water. If they were lucky. That would have been a superb gesture!

We are all aware that world poverty has been an issue for a long time. It will be interesting to see if the Prime Minister’s words make any difference. Unless of course he decides to re-introduce the rationing of food like in World War Two.

Brenda Holroyd

Netherthong

Anyone seen Nancy and co?

I NOW find myself like the TV advertisement of the fictional author called Hartley who searches the second-hand bookshops for a book he wrote on angling many years earlier and which now is out of print.

Over the past 18 years I have had 30 of my children’s books published and have raised a considerable amount of money for charitable causes. With the exception of one of my books all the others have been limited publications.

Over the years I have lost, misplaced, or lent without having had returned a number of my saved copies. This leaves me unable to share a few of my books with my grandchildren, nephews and nieces.

If any reader has a copy of the following publications of mine that they would be willing to sell would they please contact me? I will either pay them an agreed price or if they wish I will swap them their book for The Kilkenny Cat trilogy (worth £39 face value and from a 300 set ‘limited edition’).

The books I need are:

1) Our World, written in conjunction with a number of primary schools in Kirklees during the 1990s.

2) Lost, written in 2000.

3) Everyone and Everything, written around 1989/90.

4) Nancy’s Song, written in the 1990s.

Please help myself and family to be reunited with the above publications.

William Forde

Mirfield