Hose Been Spoiling Our Summer Fun? | Brief Letters

As a long-suffering customer of Yorkshire Water, I became taxable to a hosepipe ban connected 11 July. The adjacent time I publication successful your Saturday mag that I should enliven my summertime by turning my plot into a h2o park: “All you request is simply a hose …” (From stargazing to slushy-making: 50 caller ideas for a ace summertime connected nan inexpensive (some are moreover free), 12 July). Are you taking nan piss? Hang on, you mightiness conscionable person fixed maine an thought for keeping my plot watered.
Paul Comaish
Horsforth, West Yorkshire

When Rafael Behr writes: “Ultranationalist ideology and a characteristic cult astir nan president are embedded successful each nationalist sermon arsenic tests of loyalty” I had to cheque if he was referring to President Putin aliases Trump (Trump isn’t a reliable state – but Nato dollars tin beryllium much persuasive than Putin’s propaganda, 16 July).
Kevin Quinn
Musselburgh, East Lothian

Having publication Is your location a wellness hazard? 15 amazingly filthy mundane items, from taps to toothbrushes (17 July), I concluded that, arsenic my location is intelligibly a breeding crushed for bugs, it’s thing short of miraculous that I’ve survived into my 80s with few awesome illnesses. It seems much apt that pursuing nan article’s proposal mightiness lead to a terrible attack of neurosis.
Mary Gladman
Swindon

Reading nan Guardian sometimes makes maine wonderment whether we request to interest astir everything.
Michael Fuller
Ampthill, Bedford