Madam, - Having scoured your paper over the past week in a vain search for something with which to ease my itchy typing fingers, I have surmised that the silly season does really exist.
Apart from smoking, the weather and a wedding we have little to discuss. Perhaps we should learn from the French, as our court services have, and simply write off August as one long bank holiday, returning in September to fresh news, open schools and posturing politicos.
And so, Madam, I thank you and your staff for managing to fill a paper six days a week during such a planetary stupor. God bless August. - Yours, etc.,
MARK HOLLAND, Abbeycourt, Tralee, Co Kerry.