Like Suzanne Moore (G2, 19 November), I too was threatened with induction. Fifty years ago, on maternity leave from my work as a midwife, I was a week overdue with my first baby. I met a woman I had previously cared for, who said that castor oil and orange juice would do the trick. My big baby Gavin was born four hours later. Of course, in Scotland the other advice was for the expectant mother to go for a ride on the top deck of a Glasgow tram-car.
Rose Harvie
Dumbarton
• I agree with Harry Scott on proxy votes (Letters, 20 November). In 2011 my wife and I were on holiday during the referendum on AV. We applied for postal votes and pestered the local authority for ballot papers before we left. The papers duly arrived – after we had got back. Bureaucratic or postal delay deprived us of our votes. So a proxy vote is preferable – assuming you can trust your proxy voter, of course!
Tom Rees
Thames Ditton, Surrey
• If I read the photograph of Charlotte Brontë’s mini work correctly it says: “To be Disposed of: six dozen fine fat cats” (Report, 19 November). I’ll vote for that!
Colin Pickthall
Ulverston, Cumbria
• Surely this was just a spelling error (Tory ‘factcheck’: Twitter account rebranded (20 November)? It should have been fatchequeUK.
Martyn Hammersley
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
• I look forward to living long enough to read Lucy Mangan’s review of The Crown when it reaches 2019 and tells of Prince Andrew’s interview with the BBC.
Adrian Alker
Sheffield
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