My wife and I have been using a 1950s aluminium egg slicer that used to be my mother’s. We have had it for nearly 50 years (Letters, 2 October). We have no children. Any readers interested in acquiring this essential gadget when we shuffle off this mortal coil should apply through the letters desk. No charge apart from postage.
Ken Vines
Horrabridge, Devon
• In the early 1980s, local peace groups organised a camp outside RAF Fairford to protest at the presence of B-52 bombers. Perhaps we could have saved ourselves a lot of trouble and been much more effective if we had simply parked three white vans near the fence (Report, 6 October).
Christopher Rainger
York
