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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Leave them hanging on the telephone | Brief letters

Cold callers | Children reading | Push on with mowing | Not so quick crossword | Biscuit break

Regarding dealing with cold callers (Adrian Chiles, 7 May), it’s irritating I know, but if you don’t mind your phone being inaccessible for a few minutes, why not say: “Hang on, I’ll go and get him/her”, and then leave your phone until the caller rings off? At least you will have wasted some of their day.
Robert Walker
Perrancoombe, Cornwall

• Re fostering a love of reading in children (Letters, 6 May), one of my fondest memories of my teaching career was story time in the infant class in a local village school. Most of the children came quite a distance on buses. They adored Michael Rosen’s poetry. There were many afternoons when it was home time and they would shout: “Please read another Michael Rosen one, Mrs Mansfield, the driver won’t mind waiting.” What a privilege to teach them.
Janet Mansfield
Aspatria, Cumbria

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