One-line philosophers

neVeR laugh at your wife’s choices — you were one of them. Yvonne Young, Cheltenham, Glos. Bad plasterers are just papering over the cracks. P. Turberville, Ashover, Derbys. console covered in levers, switches, knobs and a tV screen. the caption at the bottom had one of them saying to the other: ‘Quick, run, I’ve just pressed the wrong button.’

this quite amused us as earlier on we had just tested Britain’s H-bomb.

I wasn’t sure if my ‘card’ would get home, but it did. It created a stir at the sorting office with a picture in the newspaper.

My sister, who was nine at the time, took it to school to show her friends. the next letter I got from home included a request from her headmaster, asking if I would send one in its natural state to show the children during geography lessons, which I did.

Graham Lench, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.