It isn’t just disabled shoppers who need access to public conveniences (Letters, 1 November). If you want to walk in the countryside or along the coast of Wales, you need to plan things very carefully – if you are female. Many coastal-path public conveniences on Anglesey are “seasonal”, so it’s better not to need a pee in winter, unless you’re agile and hardy and able to remove layers of lower-body clothing in howling winds. That’s assuming you can find a “seat” out of sight of other walkers, geologists and birdwatchers. For men, it’s a doddle.
Susan Treagus
Manchester
• Sheila Heti is absolutely wrong in her assertion (When people laugh while reading, it’s often showing off, Review, 17 November). I remember laughing uncontrollably and irresistibly as a student in the 1980s reading Tom Sharpe. Also, more recently, reading an anonymous review of a male hair-removing product on Amazon. I wonder if she’d say the same for people who are moved to tears by literature?
Pete Lavender
Woodthorpe, Nottingham
• Hannah Jane Parkinson (Weekend, 17 November) overlooks one major and valuable aspect of the theatre interval – it provides the opportunity to slip away and not endure the second half if the show is dire.
David Collins
Kiderminster, Worcestershire
• I wonder how the Rochdale Pioneers would have greeted the news that “Co-op comes top in champagne taste-test” (17 November). Turning in their graves or sleeping the sleep of the just?
Alan Sillitoe
London
• Perils and ethics aside (Letters, 17 November), I enjoy driving. I don’t want a car that does it all for me while I gaze at the view/read a book/fall asleep. Surely I’m not alone?
Kirsten Cubitt Thorley
Sheffield
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