I LOVED your picture of the Caledonia Gardens.

I lived nearby in Wolseley Street, Oatlands, and can still smell the lovely scent of flowers and vegetables wafting over our street in summer.

There was the annual Flower Show, where little girls from a local dance school performed on stage. They were dressed as clover leaves, and singing `I`m looking over a four leaved clover`.

In the evening there was open air dancing for the adults. My pal Jean and I were allowed to go, wearing our first high heels, and our nylon stockings wrinkling below our knees.

Happy days.

Mrs Margaret Taylor, Glasgow via email

FIRST Glasgow have the cheek to put their prices up especially when the price of fuel has dropped and especially as they rake in thousands of pounds every year by holding onto customers' change.

If you do not have the correct fare to purchase your ticket what ever that cost may be then you can ask the driver for a receipt to confirm how much you have paid and claim back your change from them.

The cost of short journeys should either drop in price or the amount of stops that you can travel for during the short journey should increase.

By increasing the cost for travelling on First Glasgow buses does this mean that they will stop cancelling buses when they feel like it especially during the weekend when they are normally every half hour but after a cancellation this would then mean you would have to wait another half hour for the next one to turn up.

Eddie Curran, via email

REGARDING Glasgow schools punching above their weight, I think it is one of the most disheartening articles I have read in a long time.

The concept that, in some cases, less than half or even two-thirds of children who attend Glasgow schools being unable to achieve more than two Highers is a cause for optimism is a disgrace.

To hear a leader of an executive committee attempt to explain this as a fantastic achievement owing to initiatives no pupil sitting in St Roch's would be able to name let alone be influenced by is truly dispiriting.

The Rector's comments in the article are laughable if they were not serious. "We get results". Please ask the Rector if he would be ecstatic if a majority of young people in his family were unable to achieve more than two Cs at Higher level.

Using poverty as an excuse for poor results is a tragic state of affairs for a supposedly more communal city we live in.

Ross Pollock, Woodside, via email