If you want to explore gardens without the crowds and expense of the Chelsea flower show (Letters, 1 June), go to the London Open Gardens weekend on 10-11 June. It’s a brilliant opportunity to visit all kinds of gardens across London – smart squares, roof gardens, allotments, etc. It is good value at £20 for a two-day ticket and provides a wonderful summer weekend.
Felicity Cobley
Swansea
• Re Lola Okolosie’s article (I’m a teacher – and this is why I’m not giving my son a smartphone yet, 2 January), in the late 1980s, trainers with a particular logo blazoned across them were what “everybody” had. We resisted and provided our son with sufficient funds to buy a perfectly decent pair of trainers, telling him that he was very welcome to spend his pocket money on the extra cost of the pair with the logo. It was a hard lesson.
Corinne Brindle
Thetford, Norfolk
• What on earth was the crossword setter Vulcan thinking of with the clue “Health centre for hypochondriacs”, and giving the answer as “Well woman clinic” (5 June)? No wonder female ailments continue to be ignored or dismissed as being all in the mind.
Sally Cheseldine
Balerno, Scotland
• Regarding Adrian Chiles’s article (I’d love to laugh like a baby again. But the best I can hope for is a big sneeze, 1 June), I often laugh like a baby down the local. When the “right boys” are in, early doors, after a couple of pints the jokes – often unrepeatable and often heard before – start coming.
Therapy for all, bottled or on draught.
Michael Fuller
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
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