Vanessa’s a pillar of the hiking community | Heritage
Your report (Campaigners seek historic trigger point status mapping Britain, April 16) does not mention Vanessa’s trigger point – Vanessa being a corruption of the Venesta company, which made cardboard tubes into which the concrete for the pillars was poured. These were designed for less accessible locations, mainly in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. I was never half exhausted when I met one.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
Who knew that Oui Minister was a documentary (Letters, April 19)? My friend Graham Fortune did it. He was a New Zealand civil servant and diplomat. On their first day on the job in the civil service, he would tell new recruits to take the program as an essential part of their training.
Penelope Horner
Whitchurch, Hampshire
If memory serves, when I was serving in the Royal Navy in the 1960s, the sheets of Izal (Letters, April 17) toilet paper supplied had “HM Government Only” printed on them. I remember being delighted to be able to wipe my ass in front of the government.
Gareth Davies
Ellington, Northumberland
It was good to see a leaflet for eco-friendly loo rolls drop from my Guardian last Friday – only weakened by the fact that there were three copies.
Steven Burkeman
York
There are 15,481 people for every public toilet in England (Report April 20)? With my prostate acting out these days, I just hope they tolerate the free riders.
Professor Gareth Williams
Rockhampton, Gloucestershire
