Wedding lists (Wedding Roll List List – This is the smallest romantic gift request ever?, 20 May), when my parents announced their participation in 1951, one of my mother’s sisters, then on a low salary, bought a bucket. Every week on payday, he added something home – a brush of scrubbing, a lop, floor cloth, shoe shoes and cleaning products. It is the most useful gift of marriage they receive, according to my mother.
Cliodhna Dempsey
Between Luxembourg – Display Date
“We make incentives to try to keep our most valuable resource, which is our management team,” the chair of Thames water quoted in your article (23 May). I will suggest their most precious resource is clean water. Their handling is somewhat untrustworthy if they don’t know people consider their track record without bonus. If there is, they have to pay fines for drops.
Catherine Dunn
St Andrews, Fife
I wholeheartedly agree with Lucy Manan in his semicolon protection (Duhedess Week, 23 May); However, I noticed to regret that he did not find it worth using this precious punctuation mark in his column.
Paul Copas
Brentwood, Essex
At school in 1950, we were told that, when skeptical, we need to read a sentence and if a comma sounds with a count of one, one’s need, two – a colon. Seemed to work.
Marilyn Rowley
Didsbury, Manchester
Stand for Balaclavas who becomes ubiquitous fashion wear (Live facial recognition cameras can ‘usually’ usually ‘while police use soars, 24 May).
Colin Windower
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
“Artificial intelligence to play adding paper to the armed forces, says the Secretary of Defense” (20 May). Can this be a small step on the road to the dystopia perceived in term term?
Tony Rimmer
Lyasham St Annes, Lancashire
