The letters about class snobbery and accents (12 August) reminded me of the shame I was made to feel when a rather superior nurse tutor told me that I would amount to nothing in my chosen career due to my Geordie accent. It took me years to shake off the embarrassment of speaking to groups of people. I am due to retire after 52 years in the NHS, several of them in senior management positions.
Sheila Moore
South Shields, Tyne and Wear
• My daughter and I were disappointed by Reykjavik’s penis museum (Letters, 11 August), with its numerous preserved members in glass jars, but we can recommend the understated Vagina Museum in London to all sexes – it was so informative. And the National Poo Museum on the Isle of Wight is fab
Penny Evans
Trillow Hill, Devon
• I have counted wasps (Report, 10 August) for several summers for the Big Wasp Survey run by Prof Seirian Sumner and Prof Adam Hart. I count birds in January, butterflies in July, wasps in August/September, and bumblebees once a month from March to October.
Helen MacNab
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
• Perhaps MPs should be subject to the same contract as Paul Spiers, the Bromley street cleaner – no additional earnings (South Londoners raise £3k for street cleaner’s holiday – but bosses say no, 12 August).
Maurice Hopper
Exeter
• Is it not just an erratic – a piece of rock transported by glacial action (Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds, 14 August)?
Dr John Crossman
Sherborne, Dorset
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