Pressing issues

I and my two colleagues in Instant Sunshine would like to correct your obituary of Miles Kington (February 1). Yes, he did play double-bass with us, but we aren't a jazz group. We're a humorous singing group, and Miles's special contribution was not so much his bass playing as his wonderfully acerbic quips and whimsical chats between songs. Many of his ideas live on in our current performances, and we hope our audiences will remember Miles and have a good laugh.
Alan Maryon Davis

Sociologist Dr Caroline Gatrell has correctly identified the catch 22 for mothers when fathers spend more time with the kids - they do even less housework (Family, February 2). And the one area "most bitterly resisted" by women is ironing the man's shirts. My advice to these legions of enslaved women: just stop ironing his shirts.
Stephanie Calman,
badmothersclub.co.uk

Welcome as it is that the Tories are now in favour of more park rangers and staff to keep parks safe (Report, February 4), the collective memory in this part of London is that most of these staff were lost when the Greater London council was abolished by Mrs Thatcher.
John Webb
London

Phone up their private secretary and offer to see him/her as a private patient? (How can you speed up getting an appointment with a busy consultant? G2, February 4). In other words, queue-jump by bribing NHS staff. After all, the private consultation will use NHS premises, equipment and support staff.
Peter Ostrowski
Wickford, Essex

So scientists have inflicted the poor old mouse with the common cold virus (British scientists create first mouse that can catch colds, February 4). What other human frailties will they be subjected to? Binge drinking and obesity?
Ivor Yeloff
Norwich, Norfolk

Great list of acronyms (Medical confessions, February 4), but you missed my favourite - a name - TF Bundy: totally fucked but unfortunately not dead yet.
Alan Paterson
London

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