Wiping your bum on Izal (Letters, 20 April)? I made a Radio 4 musical feature on Izal back in 2010 (Now Wash Your Hands) and included the fact that, during the war, you could wipe yourself on a picture of Hitler. I’m also the proud owner of a 1930s roll printed with William Heath Robinson drawings, including one picturing the cleaning of a broody hen coop with Izal disinfectant.
Sally Goldsmith
Sheffield
• Regarding Doug Maughan’s letter (16 April) arguing that Peter Mandelson should be excused for urinating in the street due to being an older gentleman, there are many women who experience urinary incontinence. Would Mr Maughan be happy for us all to tooty down in the street when we are caught short? I doubt it.
Melanie Jones
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
• Re your report (Luxury to high street jeans: can you tell the difference?, 17 April), my Next jeans cost £1, my Levi 501s cost £3, £6 and £12, and my Polo Ralph Laurens (my favourite) cost £12. All from charity shops. Very sustainable.
Linda Rhead
Hampton, London
• Good to hear that the Proms will include works with “lots of notes” (Report, 21 April). Let’s hope they’re in the right order.
Richard Barnard
Wivenhoe, Essex
• Lucy Knight says “bread-baking seemed like a must” (My month in the tradwife world: ‘I can’t pretend I’m not enjoying myself at all...’, 15 April). In the 1970s, there was a bread shortage so we had to try to make our own. Mine were regarded as bricks that could make a shed.
Jenny Moir
Chelmsford
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