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The Guardian - UK
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Get lucky at a cool Glastonbury alternative

Festivalgoers dance at Glastonbury on 23 June 2022
Festivalgoers at Glastonbury. One reader has an alternative festival suggestion. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Forget Glastonbury (Glastonbury festival welcomes back crowds amid rail strikes, 22 June). The audience of 100 at the local Baston folk club has something far more exciting – the interval raffle. I suppose a Glasto raffle is probably impractical, with winners taking ages to make their way to the main stage to claim their box of chocolates or Steeleye Span CD. Also, the cries of “put it back” might be quite difficult to hear.
Toby Wood
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

• The reason we over-75s are called the “silent generation” (Report, 16 June) is presumably because many of us do not use social media. We are therefore inaudible to the Twitterverse; they don’t hear us in their social media world. But, as your correspondent points out (Letters, 21 June) we are very vocal – and we write letters to the Guardian instead.
Sally Burch
London

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