Letter: Letter

Published 15 December 2001

From Alan Lang

Some years ago I took my 6-year-old daughter to a local market. She was not
impressed by a stallholder’s sign that read: “Watch batteries fitted”.

“Won’t that be really boring, Daddy?” she wanted to know.

Wigan, Lancashire

Issue no. 2321 published 15 December 2001

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