In Wales we have a better answer to the tourist coach problem (Letters, 2 July). We have narrow-gauge tourist railways – the coach delivers the passengers at one end and goes round to the other, where the driver has his rest period while his passengers go through the mountains by train, with coffee or beer on the way. Coach owners beat a path to our door.
Dr Pedr Jarvis
Ffestiniog Railway Medical Service
• I am very concerned to have my suspicions confirmed about the Guardian paper edition’s ageing readership. First the “I’m old but can still manage X,Y,Z”. Now the “colour of my school uniform knickers” brigade (Letters, 1 July). It’s not even August yet. What happens when we’ve all dropped off our collective perch? Worrying.
Jennifer Clifton (aged 72)
Otley, West Yorkshire
• Lemon drizzle cake introduced into the UK by Evelyn Rose in the pages of the Jewish Chronicle in 1967 (A month in Ambridge, 3 July)? Sorry, it was around before then! I clearly remember my mother making it in the 50s and early 60s. I didn’t much care for it at the time – not enough icing on it!
Rev C Mary Austin
Tibberton, Worcestershire
• I thought somebody was having a laugh when I saw that someone calling himself Lord Salisbury was chairman of the “Constitutional Reform Group” (Letters, 2 July). Unfortunately it appears to be true.
Tim Barker
Eastington, Gloucestershire
• Could the clue “contradiction in terms (8)” – solution “oxymoron” – apply to Friday’s “Quick crossword” (2 July)? It took us two hours.
Anne and Alastair Balfour
Blanefield, Stirlingshire
