Bum rap

SIR – In response to Mary Sutherland’s letter (November 7), on informing my partner that I would need to dig out my hands-free belt-satchel for a trip abroad, I was transfixed by a Medusa-like stare and a snarl of: “You are not taking a bumbag!”

So much for the attempt at renaming.

Ken Shotton

Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire