• I’M a member of the Fortune Green Choir who meet on Tuesdays at Emmanuel Church in West Hampstead.

We had a 30-minute slot at the annual Jester Festival at Fortune Green on Saturday. We don’t pretend to be a professional choir.

You don’t have to audition, anyone can join, some of us can read music, but others can’t. We just sing for fun.

The choir is a source of comfort for its members, some of whom are elderly, some are lonely, some are widowed, some have young children and need a space to chill.

Over the years the choir has raised considerable sums for charity from our concerts at the church, but there was no charge for our singing at the Jester Festival.

We sang just to try to spread a little bit of happiness with the joy of music. Clearly we didn’t hit the spot with a young girl who spoke with me after we came off stage.

She was aged about 14, and she couldn’t look me in the eye as she said: “You were really bad, you sounded like cats wailing.” She ran away as soon as she had finished saying what she wanted to say. I was really saddened by her actions.

True, we are not the best singers in the world, but if you don’t like listening, please just wait a while, we’re only singing for half an hour.

Is it just a coincidence that this occurred on the day that The Sun was forced to issue an apology for Jeremy Clarkson’s outburst at Meghan Markle?

Do young people now feel that it is OK to say whatever they want to say, even if it might be perceived as hurtful and unkind? How sad.

CHRISTINE MARCHANT, NW6