Vanessa’s A Pillar Of The Hiking Community | Brief Letters

Your study (Campaigners activity listed position for historical trig points that mapped Britain, 16 April) didn’t mention nan Vanessa trig constituent – Vanessa being a corruption of nan Venesta company, which made cardboard tubes into which nan actual for nan pillars was poured. These were designed for little accessible places, mostly successful nan Scottish Highlands and Islands. I was ne'er little than half exhausted erstwhile I met one.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife

Who knew Yes Minister was a documentary (Letters, 19 April)? My friend Graham Fortune did. He was a New Zealand nationalist servant and diplomat. On their first time moving for nan nationalist service, he would show caller recruits to watch nan programme arsenic an basal part of their training.
Penelope Horner
Whitchurch, Hampshire

If my representation is correct, while I was serving successful nan Royal Navy successful nan 1960s, nan sheets of Izal toilet insubstantial (Letters, 17 April) provided had “HM Government Only” printed connected them. I retrieve being delighted astatine being to swipe my bum connected nan government.
Gareth Davies
Ellington, Northumberland

It was bully to spot a flyer for environmentally friends loo rotation falling retired of my Guardian past Friday – only somewhat undermined by location being 3 copies of it.
Steven Burkeman
York

There are 15,481 group for each nationalist toilet successful England (Report, 20 April)? With my prostate playing up these days, I conscionable dream that they tolerate queue-jumpers.
Prof Gareth Williams
Rockhampton, Gloucestershire