Dear Stan, Many, many, many thanks to -RdS- and photographer T. Andrew Morton for the superb article about Karan in last week’s issue (3rd Oct 07) of GulfWeekly.
The article and the images were fabulous. As a result of the article Karan has become a star ... in fact I received a mail from a well-wisher who called Karan a hero.
So many people have called to wish Karan well and he’s on top of the world. He has more self confidence.
Rosamund has brought so much joy to Karan and the whole family. I shall preserve this issue forever. Karan hopes that as a result of so much publicity he may be offered more modelling contracts. I really hope so too.
Gopika Beri,
(a proud mum),
Adliya.
Dear Stan,
Ref the article published in last week’s GulfWeekly, I would like to inform your readers that the British Embassy has announced a leadership training workshop for Chevening Alumni that aims to help former Chevening scholars develop and enhance leadership skills that could help them attain positions of influence.
The three-day workshop to be delivered in November by British leadership training experts for approximately 20-30 former Chevening scholars will cover leadership skills training, team-building, coaching and an interactive session on effective lobbying.
All Cheveing scholars interested in attending the training should contact me.
Karen El Zein, Manama. Karen.ElZein@fco.gov.uk
Dear Stan,
Thank you for providing the comparison shopping list. One problem, if you shop for basically the same thing each week the supermarkets can fix: prices on those items while other items run wild.
I suggest that you compare a new list each week and thus you will have a valid comparison of the overall price comparison between the supermarkets. From a statistical point of view, following your current procedures will provide great internal validity but very low external validity.
We all want to be able to generalise which market is the least expensive by having a blind sample each week thus providing a higher degree of external validity to your survey.
Thanks for your efforts,
Jack, by e-mail
Editior’s note: We plan to change a few items a week to keep the stores on their toes but we also want to ensure that Shipa’s basket is consistently full of the essentials of a regular shop.
Dear Stan,
I read in a recent column by The Whisperer that a young woman is thinking of registering her child at nursery school before getting pregnant.
I can’t top that but we did have a Bahraini gentleman enquiring about registering his unborn child! Unfortunately we require at least a name and date of birth in order to register a child but it just goes to show that there is indeed a serious lack of nursery places available on the island. Can I also thank you for publishing the photos of our Foundation 2 class a couple of weeks ago; the children were thrilled to see themselves in your paper.
Eleanor Benson,
Principal, Little Gems Pre-school.
Dear Stan,
Thanks for carrying an excellent article on Pages 18-19 of Oct 3 issue titled ‘building bridges’. It covered a current topic of great interest to many GulfWeekly readers.
Vipul Siva, Manama.
Dear Stan,
I enjoy reading Patrick Cummings’ column each week in the sports section of GulfWeekly and hope he can write something horrible about my favourite team, West Ham.
It seems whenever he starts sniping at a side – for example Manchester City (football) and England (rugby) and suggesting they are rubbish they cannot stop winning.
We could do with some of that please!
John Meehan, Manama.
Dear Stan,
I was pleased to read page 6 of GulfWeekly 26/9 Awali Days.
Magical classroom memories. You might like to know that Mr John Clingley ex-headmaster is still alive and kicking even after recent heart surgery. Should anyone like to contact him, his address is:
Mr John Clingley FRGS
Flat 3 Westwood House
75 Edinburgh Road
Norwich NR2 3RL
Norfolk, United Kingdom.
Yvonne Trueman, Bahrain
(I met up with him only last year)
l See Awali Days on Pg6
