Zoe Williams is spot on (A mug’s game, 1 April). I recall a poster in west Berlin when the Turks were flocking there: “We needed hands, but people came.”
Rev Peter Brain
Exmouth, Devon
• Nice to see the work of Gavin Munro (The Innovators, 30 March), and the technique of tree-shaping for practical purposes being taken seriously at last. It’s worldwide, from Europe to Israel, Taiwan to Australia and the US. I’ve been at it here in the UK for about 20 years now, growing three-legged stools and encouraging others to grow them. If readers are interested in what’s possible, they should search for Axel Erlandson, perhaps the modern father of all this. Let’s have more orchards and fewer energy-hungry factories.
Chris Cattle
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
• Good try, fooled me until I was half way through writing you a letter asking whether Jeremy Clarkson’s tank-driving “friends” would follow him into this battle (‘I was the poster boy for petrolheads – now I want to be a poster boy for carbon haters’, 1 April). Not quite San Serriffe, but close. Hope he doesn’t come round to thump you!
David Reed
London
• All very well, but will he wear sandals?
EL Trussell
Sudbury, Suffolk
• We may all be familiar with various doctors’ abbreviations (Letters, 1 April) when referring to their patients. One I heard a few years ago but never used myself was tf bundy (totally fucked but unfortunately not dead yet).
Dr Maureen Tilford
Norwich
• Let’s also hear it also for the formerly luckless Tunstall Town FC (Letters, 31 March), who’ve come a long way since finally ending their 171-game winless streak in February 2014. They now occupy much headier heights – fourth from bottom of the Staffs County Senior League (Division 2 North) with five wins and two draws.
Graham Larkbey
London
