If I exercise the right to buy my house and so make use of a very attractive 35% government subsidy (The PM has a dream, and it’s Farrow & Ball-coloured, 15 April), do I have to give the spare room back. If not, why not?
John Nash
Child Okeford, Dorset
• When I worked in the psychiatric service in Liverpool, patients attended a drop-in centre (Marc Burrows, Opinion, 14 April). One day some visitors came to the unit and asked a patient what activities were provided. He replied: “We go to Blackpool for the hallucinations.”
Ann Fordham
Prenton, Merseyside
• On the other hand, if the Green party’s “politics of la-la land” (Editorial, 15 April) happened to be what is essential, that would make their manifesto the only one that was realistic, wouldn’t it?
Norman Fairclough
Lancaster
• After I recently changed my car, I received, unexpectedly, a refund of £2.50 from DVLA (Letters, 16 April).
Jenny Haynes
Barton on Humber, North Lincolnshire
• It is not easy to keep a partner in a relationship. Your article (Ten ways to improve your relationship: an optimist’s guide, 10 April) showed how we can find ways to improve our daily life with a mate. I think it’s important to spend time as a couple, to treat each other nicely and to avoid turning a partner into a different person.
Eleanna Manesi
Athens, Greece
• A common sign in army surplus shops is “combat trousers” (Letters, 16 April); I refuse to as I find them a useful item of clothing.
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
• Some years after I retired as head of a local school (Letters, 16 April), I was shopping in Bury St Edmunds one day when an ex-pupil came up to me and said: “Did you used to be Mr Curson?”
Edward Curson
Diss, Norfolk
