From Jeannette Davidson
Whoever laughingly informed Ron Packman that the name of his experiment in surface texture for an Essex sculpture garden, “sitooterie”, meant simply a place to sit out was surely being rather coy (10 March, p 52). In the west of Scotland in the 1950s a sitooterie was a wee shady corner where chaste couples could become more familiar with each other’s surface texture between dancing limited-contact reels and strathspeys.
Edinburgh, UK
