Straight to the POINT

÷ THE optimist in me says the England football team only have to turn up to win the World Cup. The cynic in me says the only way we will make it beyond the first round is if we’re drawn in the same group as Narnia, Middle Earth and Neverland. MIKE PHELPS, Yeovil, Somerset. ÷ CAN I download the Uber ambulance app? KEN WARREN, Sidmouth, Devon. ÷ MY MOST hated Americanism is ‘from the get go’ (Letters). Why not ‘from the beginning’? SUE BRADFORD, Stevenage, Herts. ÷ HERE is my recipe for a supermarket ready meal: water, sugar, salt, colouring, flavouring, palm oil and a coagulating agent. Just add mouth-watering packaging. ANGELA WETHERBY, Rotherham, S. Yorks. ÷ I WAS a hospital theatre sister in Cape Town and was pursued by Dr Christiaan Barnard (Mail). But I will say in his defence he always thought of his patients first and last. Name and address supplied. ÷ SO LONG to the stethoscope (Good Health). After a bout of pneumonia, my GP checked my heart through my vest, shirt and sweater. GEORDIE CAMPBELL, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex. ÷ HAS anyone worked out how to fold the new £5 and £10 notes into their wallet? ADEYEMI BANJO, London SE15. ÷ THERE’S nothing miraculous about Debbie McGee being able to do the splits at 59. It’s down to years of training. That’s why I can type at 200 words per minute. MADELINE BATES, St Helier, Jersey. FOR permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk