Your article (All adults in England to be deemed organ donors in ‘opt-out’ system, 19 May) might also have mentioned that it is legal to donate a kidney to a stranger while you are alive. Groups such as Give A Kidney can provide more information and support.
Joseph Hickish
Blandford Forum, Dorset
• There is going to be nothing “normal” about “the new normal” unless public toilets (including in-store ones) reopen. Does anybody know why they are all closed? For some of us, nothing is open until the toilets are too.
Peter Taylor
Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire
• Richard Clubley must have been to the wrong newsagent on Orkney (Letters, 19 May). I once called in the corner shop in Kirkwall at 8am on a Monday and bought Monday’s Guardian with my voucher. When I expressed surprise that the papers were available so early, I was told that the man who rows across the Pentland Firth every morning with deliveries goes at a fair lick.
Frances Worsley
Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire
• I too have heard a cuckoo every day (Letters, 19 May). It was only when I noticed that its call occurred at exactly the same time each day that I realised it was a neighbour’s birdsong clock.
Richard Parmenter
Enfield, London
• Given that teaching at Cambridge University is to be online until summer 2021 (Pass notes, 20 May), is there any chance of some of the empty college rooms being used by rough sleepers after they’ve been turfed out of their hotel rooms?
John Beresford
Cambridge
