Re dog names (The pet I’ll never forget, 8 May), I remember, some 30 years ago, a dog running down our village street, its owners in hot pursuit calling out its name: “Tiptoe! Tiptoe!” It didn’t.
Joy Webb
Penistone, South Yorkshire
• When we got a cairn terrier puppy, he had already been named Achilles. I could always spot English speakers in the park by their reaction to my urgent shouts as I tried to train him to walk just behind me.
Charles Osborne
Prague, the Czech Republic
• I agree that we have an unhealthy obsession with sleep (Our obsession with sleep is doing more harm than good – and ignores the real problem, 9 May). But if the “sleepalyser” – blood tests for drivers after a road accident to determine whether they are under the “sleep limit” – is to be introduced, surely the police should be similarly tested to check that they’re fresh enough to carry out the test?
Stan Labovitch
Windsor, Berkshire
• Re the “enigma wrapped in pastry” (Breakfast pie: the British delicacy that doesn’t exist – but absolutely should, 8 May), breakfast pie is on the menu at the tea rooms in the Antiques Village in Levenshulme, Manchester.
Carole Ludlow Mooney
Bacup, Lancashire
• Mary Burgess (Letters, 9 May) wonders why we have letterboxes at ground level. My European friends wonder why we cut holes in our doors at all.
Val Seddon
York
• Is anyone who cycles to a demonstration carrying a D-lock or a bike chain now breaking the law?
Prof Jonathan Bard
Oxford
