newspaper he retorted, "Your
eyesight is clearly not a problem."
JOANNE AITCHISON, Wirral
Using my Lenovo tablet, I sent an
email to my surgery asking the
secretary to arrange my repeat
prescription. She replied saying that
I should pick it up from Boots, the
chemist. I replied saying thanks.
I couldn’t stop laughing when I read
her next email asking me what that
other medicine called “Lenovo tablet
10” was.
MAYA KARMARKAR, London
My friend Katie texted me and
asked if my partner Lee could
change her contraceptive coil for her!
I read the text again and thought,
How strange. I rang her, and it turned
out it was the coil in her vape she
wanted changing. Thank goodness it
was just a typing error, but we all had
a good laugh.
JANE WHITAKER, Kent
DECEMBER 2021 • 131An infant school nativity play
will always reduce me to tears,
but they were tears of laughter
when my pride and joy was playing
the role of innkeeper.
In response to Joseph's knock, he
suddenly forgot what he was
supposed to say and simply gave our
family's standard response when
visitors arrive:
"Come on in. Mum's just putting
the kettle on."
Only in Yorkshire? Well, I wouldn't
know about that.
MAGGIE COBBETT, North YorkshireOne day, I saw a mechanical
sweeper being driven along our
estate road, weaving around parked
cars but making no impact on large
weeds growing in the gutters.
I then spoke to a local councillor
about it, who kindly explained that
this is part of the council's "re-
wilding project".
BRIAN BUCKLEcartoon by Guto Dias
"YOUR NORTH POLE FACTORY IS NOT CARBON-FREE"