It’s All In The Name!

I USED to play four-a-side skittles in a summer knockout tournament for the local pub, the dolphin Inn in Welton. One opposition team were, in playing order: Owen Lamb, desie Veale, Len bull and sid Cook. We lost.

Colin Payne, Bath, Somerset.

WHEN I was growing up in Crediton, devon, our dentist was called Mr sawbone. years later, moving to Paignton, I worked in a shop where the assistant on the hosiery counter was Mrs denier.

Heather C. Williams,

Penarth, S. Glam.

AT THE first school where I taught, the head of maths was Gordon Figures.

Steve Clarkson, Birmingham.