IN answer to Nicola Smith-Quinn’s letter in Friday’s Glasgow Times regarding home schooling and holding down a job, it’s all about discipline and reward.

Too many complaints centre around having to constantly supervise children but if they are firstly taught respect this should not be a major issue.

GMT

Giffnock

I WOULD like to inform that all people in flats in the South Side of Glasgow have to put their food waste in with their general waste i.e green bins.

As the service for uplift of the food waste – it has been suspended since last Match due to the pandemic.

So what is the point of having a separate bin and caddy for food waste.?

If it ever goes back to being uplifted, I think a lot of people would not bother after almost a year it is going in with the general waste and some people in flats have gardens.

David Robb

Gorbals

I WAS thrilled to hear of the Scottish Government’s ambitions to build a new metro in Glasgow to improve transport connections in our city.

Hopefully important lessons can be learnt from the procurement of Edinburgh’s tram system to ensure that this one arrives on time, within budget and that it glides as softly as a cloud.

There’s nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified six car metro!

D Brown

Hill Street

I AM 89. My dear wife of 67 years of marriage developed dementia about a year ago. She went into a care home about two months ago, and is being wonderfully cared for.

I live alone, and the current lockdown has made it more difficult for me to ease my mental health stress level.

I therefore decided to adopt one of the simple therapies suggested on TV to help people like me. Lie back and listen to music you enjoy.

I put on a CD featuring some of my favourite singers. The first track was Perry Como.

While he was singing, “Fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you, if you’re young at heart”, I took my lunch dishes through to the kitchen.

When I came back, I lay down comfortably on the couch, eyes closed, cushion behind my head, just in time to hear Frank Sinatra belt out, “And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain”!

Friends, be careful with your choice of therapy. Mine turned out to be in the ‘Fake News’ category. I am a away for a wee sherry with the CD player switched off. It is a proven therapy.

Daniel Harris

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IT is no wonder Glasgow was named as the dirtiest city. People get a food takeaway and eat it going home etc but they just throw the leftovers on the ground.

They don’t wait until they find a bin and some even throw it into people’s gardens. Another point – will the food waste bins from flats in the South Side of Glasgow ever be emptied again? This has been suspended since last March.

Derek Robb

Crosshill

I LISTENED the other day to the Moderator of the Church of Scotland justifying the Church’s continued support of Government ruling to keep Churches closed. The Free Church of Scotland are appealing this decision and I applaud their courage.

I see no reason, with correct protocols in place, why mainly elderly people should be denied the spiritual comfort of attending church once a week. Stand up and be counted!

HD

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