The election campaign has provided a handy means of demarcation within my extended clan of fellow grandparents (Letters, 1 May). My wife and I are now “Granny and Grandad Green” as opposed to “Blue Nan” and, rather worryingly, “Purple Grandpa”.
Ian Grieve
’Gordon Bennett’, Llangollen Canal
• As is often the case, there is a word in Yiddish, with no known equivalent in English – “Machatonim” – for the parents of the people your children marry (and consequently, your grandchildren’s other grandparents). It clearly reflects the historical importance of the extended family in Jewish life.
Adrian Brodkin
London
• Boris Johnson’s Sun article may have contained what you term “felicitous phrasemongery” (A lack of seriousness is suffocating debate, Editorial, 28 April), but the issue also contained pictures of five bottoms and 23 naked breasts. Perhaps readers of the paper found those more interesting than Johnson’s pointless insults.
Emeritus Professor Sally Tomlinson
Broadway, Worcestershire
• You report (29 April) that the Catholic bishops are so desperate for priests they are considering allowing married men. How desperate do they need to be for them to open the priesthood to the 50% of the population still excluded? I will not be contributing to the vocations fund until the church welcomes women into the ministry.
Cath Attlee
London
• So Nestlé is moving Blue Riband production to Poland (Nearly 300 Nestlé jobs to go as Blue Riband leaves UK after 81 years,26 April) – by no means the first UK brand to be made “in the EU”, as the labels will probably say now. Particularly worrying is that the company said that its factory in Kargowa is “a centre of excellence for this type of wafer-based product”. First they came for our Blue Ribands, then they came for our Kit Kats …
Keith Potter
Gunnislake, Cornwall
• So David Cameron spends £25k on a shepherd’s hut to write in (Report, 1 May). Joe and Eddie Grundy would have made one for a quarter of the price.
Gwyneth Cooper
Chester
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