The writer of You’re halving a laugh (Shortcuts, G2, 7 March) obviously thinks half-pint drinkers are being cheated in paying more proportionately for their tipple. When I have my half of shandy, I take up just as much room in the pub, toy with it for just as long as the pint drinker, need my glass washing just the same, and use the loo and the bike-rack/car park like Mr Pint. Why should I pay only half what he does?
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• My first Christmas home from college I found my only soft toys – a beloved sawdust-filled Teddy and a gangly rabbit in pyjamas, called Arthur Noddy for reasons obscured by the mists of time – missing (The cuddly toys have got to go, Family, 5 March). Eventually my mother admitted cremating them as unwanted dust-gatherers. I’m 82 but have yet to forgive her.
Valerie Palmer
South Shields
• I was interested to read about cookers with eye-level grills being “as rare as hen’s teeth” (‘My fridge is 60m years old’, 27 February). At that very moment a friend had a choice of five such models (Curry’s). Perhaps the provinces are still catered for in our unfashionable ways.
Linda Gresham
Birmingham
• Letter racks were not intended for incoming post (Letters, 7 March), but were where family members in the “big house” would leave their missives for the postman to collect on his round.
Geraldine Blake
Worthing
• Last weekend I was one of the litter pickers sprucing up Oxford (‘We are on the verge of a litter crisis’, theguardian.com, 25 February). Could Highways England now take a mop to its road signs? Some local ones are almost illegible.
Elaine Steane
Oxford
• So, they’re going to trial a string of 10 lorries with only one driver at the front, and call it a … train (Driverless cars to be tested on a motorway, theguardian.com, 6 March).
Marguerite Cullen
Bourne, Lincolnshire
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