Straight to the POINT

WHAT on earth possessed Prince George’s parents to dress him in an embroidered smocking blouse? There’s no way that was a shirt. And buttons to hold his shorts up? That end of World War II-style made a gorgeous boy look ridiculous.

TATIANA HOBBY, Lymington, Hants.

AS FREQUENT restaurant patrons, my wife and I are aware of the correct positions for all the various items of cutlery, but are curious as to exactly where on the table mobile phones should be placed.

BOB FORD, Sale, Manchester. players at Wimbledon look fantastic in ‘tennis whites’. It’s hard to understand why some are complaining. Wimbledon should tell them not to bother entering if they don’t like the rules.

D. ALLEN, Runcorn, Cheshire.

APPARENTLY, scientists have developed a camera with a shutter speed so fast that it can take a picture of Russell Brand with his mouth shut.

PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs.

SEEING the pictures of the squalid state of the Glastonbury site after the festival, I recalled the claim that ‘environmental awareness’ is promoted there (Letters). It’s enough to make a cat laugh.

PHIL CROMIN, Toddington, Beds. HEATHROW airport has existed since 1948. You can’t rent or purchase property until you’re 18 (was 21) so, unless opponents of the third runway are 88 or older, they must have moved into a nearby property — like me, in the full knowledge that the airport was there.

PETER HARFORD, Richmond, Surrey.

THE Government seems to think GPs and shop workers should work seven days a week. How soon can we expect to see MPs and peers sitting seven days a week?

J. SANDERSON, Dronfield, Derbys.