August 26.

Did I miss something while on holiday in July? On my return I received

a letter from the Bon Secours Hospital, as a Church of Scotland

minister, inviting myself and my parish church council to visit. My

reply asking what a PCC was has gone unanswered to date.

On Wednesday, August 25, I opened my copy of the Radio Times for the

week beginning August 28 and turned to the Radio Scotland pages to

discover ''Bank Holiday Monday'' programmes.

This morning I opened The Herald to discover an advertisement from

British Car Rental offering ''special bank holiday rates''.

Totally convinced I must have missed something while away I phoned the

Glasgow number given and asked them about this. I was told that as a

British company, irrespective of the situation in Scotland, as far as

they were concerned it was a holiday.

When I tried to inquire further the phone was replaced on the cradle.

Rev. S. D. Rogerson,

28 Beech Avenue,

Glasgow.