A Guardian, sir? Not in Mapperley

Your picture on page 4 (31 July) shows the PM, chancellor and home secretary laughing together, without masks, and passing round bottles of gin, without gloves. They are obviously as confused about what the current social distancing rules are as I am.
Jeanette Hamilton
Buxton, Derbyshire

• Call me a cynic, but doesn’t putting social care into the NHS make it a bigger bundle for the potential US trade deal (Revealed: NHS could take over social care, swelling budget to £150bn, 27 July)?
Mick Marchington
Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire

• In the early 1980s when staying with a friend in the Mapperley area of Nottingham I went out to get a Guardian only to be told by the newsagent: “Not a Guardian sort of area, sir” (Letters, 31 July).
Leigh Stenson
Barnard Castle, County Durham

• David Garner’s letter on being given a choice between red and white cheese (Letters, 30 July) reminds me of being asked in 1960s Australia whether I wanted “mild or tasty”.
Wendy McMullan
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

• When I was a young boy there were only two kinds of cheese – but they were block cheese or triangles, the latter being Kraft Dairylea portions.
Greg Birdseye
Iffley, Oxford

• At a hotel in Dublin I was once asked: “Will you be having the Irish camembert or the Irish Danish blue?”
Paul Kennedy
Ilkley, West Yorkshire