Chess | Swifts | Flowering lemon timber | John Clare | LV=
How sad that you simply present such a monochrome image of the chess world of which I have been a eager member for many years (Editorial, 12 November). I have never brought curling sandwiches in a plastic bag to a chess occasion. My most popular power supply is a ripe banana. Once I reached in my pocket for one before a troublesome match, a workforce member as soon as asked hopefully whether I had any heroin with me.
Rob Hull
London
• Your country diary (13& November) says: “Screams of swifts that scoured air in summer time at the moment are amplified inside the partitions of Pyrenean or Anti Atlas gorges.” Our widespread swifts are much further south than that. Throughout November they are more likely to be snapping up insects over the Congo forest.
Sarah Gibson
Writer, Swifts and Us
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