I enjoyed your article on That’s Life! (‘Esther, the singing dog won’t sing!’ Rantzen and team on the joy of That’s Life!, 31 May). I worked on the programme as a film editor. One of the “stunts” we filmed was a chap who put two ferrets down his trousers, held by cycle clips. These pranks were often copied by viewers at home. The production office got a letter from a man who had risked replicating our film item. It was written on hospital notepaper.
Paul Foxall
Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire
• My mother refused to let me join the Brownies (Letters, 30 May). She said she couldn’t afford the uniform. Working in Leeds two decades later, I bought a Brownie uniform at a jumble sale. I wore it with jeans and relished all the wonderful badges. I’m still working on my housekeeping skills.
Vicki Morley
Penzance, Cornwall
• You describe cats as “sensitive, intelligent and expressive animals” (Kitty confidential: 13 secret signals all cat owners need to know – from a quivering tail to aeroplane ears, 1 June). As we say in Glasgow, “Aye, right”. I am curious: when was the last time anyone saw a cat sniffing for explosives, guiding a visually impaired person, or chasing down a criminal?
Dr Harpreet S Kohli
Glasgow
• A Scottish friend buying extortionate G&Ts at a London bar remarked: “These English measures, it’s no’ worth dirtying the glasses” (Letters, 31 May). It’s become a regular quotation.
Beck Woodrow
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
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