Pupils who were “eager to know the progress of the MCC in the Test match” (Letters, 14 April) must have been perpetually disappointed, since the MCC have never played a Test match.
Joseph Webber
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
• “The world’s first crime-fighting shoe scanner” (G2, 13 April). Do you think they’d consider calling it the Plodcast?
Terri Green
Langley, Warwickshire
• Never mind the peacocks (Frisky peacocks ruining cars near Devon estate, 15 April). Our car and ground-floor windows are being attacked by an aggressive gang of chaffinches. It’s been suggested their great, great grandparents may have unsuccessfully auditioned for that other Hitchcock movie.
Bill Messer
Pontrhydfendigaid, Ceredigion
• Latin, German, Spanish, French, American, Jamaican and even English words all in one Quick Crossword. Don’t you just love the Guardian (15 April)?
Bob Hargreaves
Bury
• The way pupils address their teachers seems to persist for a long time (Letters, 15 April). Some years after retiring in 1986, I needed help with a septic tank problem. When the man turned up he looked vaguely familiar, and greeted me like a long-lost friend. When I confessed to having forgotten his name he cheerfully told me, “Try Roger, miss.” I last had contact with him when he was six.
Hilda Hayden
Malvern, Worcestershire
• Seen in a solicitor’s window in Kendal (Letters, 15 April): “Specialising in personal injury and professional negligence.” Doesn’t fill you with confidence.
Paul Traynor
Stafford
• Spotting an advertisement for “complimentary therapy”, I wondered whether this entailed the therapist telling you how well you were looking.
Tom Locke
Burntisland, Fife
