In 1992, we moved from London to Herefordshire with our three children, aged five, seven and nine. When I took them to join the local primary school, I asked the head what he thought of the new Sats exams (Letters, 11 May). He said: “It doesn’t matter how many times you weigh a pig, it still weighs the same.” I was glad to send my children to his school. They all graduated from university without being weighed.
Janette Ward
Tarrington, Herefordshire
• Recent correspondence about double-decker buses (Letters, 17 May) provides a nice reminder of Annie Ross’s vocalisation of Wardell Gray’s tenor saxophone solos on his tune Twisted: “Don’t you let them laugh at me / When I refused to ride on all those double-decker buses / All because there was no driver on the top.”
Richard Carter
Putney, London
• This year is the 50th anniversary of when we last had a prime minister from the north of England (Harold Wilson). It would be good to think that we could mark this milestone with a second.
John Wilson
Longridge, Lancashire
• Please nip the Guardian’s use of “bunches” in the bud. Last week in your paper, I saw “a bunch of roads” and then, worse, “a bunch of great art”. Please make it stop, otherwise “a bunch of fives” is called for.
Robin Nicholas
Farnham, Surrey
• Re the deer that was stuck on the escalator at Marks & Spencer in Norwich (Report, 15 May), I wonder which department it was heading for. One can only ruminate.
Richard Sims
Herne Hill, London
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