Chess | Swifts | Flowering lemon timber | John Clare | LV=
How sad that you simply present such a monochrome picture of the chess world of which I've been a eager member for many years (Editorial, 12 November). I've by no means brought curling sandwiches in a plastic bag to a chess event. My most popular power supply is a ripe banana. Once I reached in my pocket for one before a troublesome match, a staff member as soon as requested hopefully whether or not I had any heroin with me.
Rob Hull
London
• Your nation diary (13& November) says: “Screams of swifts that scoured air in summer time at the moment are amplified inside the walls of Pyrenean or Anti Atlas gorges.” Our widespread swifts are much additional south than that. Throughout November they are more likely to be snapping up bugs over the Congo forest.
Sarah Gibson
Writer, Swifts and Us
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