The will of the people – except when it’s Aslef | Brief letters

So, Southern rail drivers have voted 54% to 46% to reject the Aslef-negotiated deal and plan more strikes (Report, 17 February). No doubt the company and the government will want to respect “the wishes of the people” and will soon settle matters.
Dr Brian Curwain
Christchurch, Dorset

• In East Hull currants and leftover pastry are made into fat rascals. I was in Shildon, Co Durham recently and found the local baker was selling sly cake (Letters, 18 February), which is dried fruit between two slices of pastry. Apparently it is so named after a South Shields baker caught having an illicit affair. Perhaps they could could be combined into Sly Rascals.
James Bold
Leeds

• I have the Weetabix Wonder Book of Birds which I won in an essay competition at primary school in 1959 (Letters, passim). They gave one copy to each school and we all had to write about why Weetabix is so good for you. I still feel smug about it.
Jane Jones
Chester

• Surely the question everyone is asking Maggie Colwell (Letters, 18 February) is just how many 35mm film canisters does she use to keep the 193 clippings about 35mm film canisters.
George Czernuszka
Manchester

• Parisians have always been dead cool (Letters, 14 February), even so in the 1960s they referred to Les The Beatles.
Maggie Winkworth
London

• Whose lunchbox did Zoe Williams aim to liven up with her sequinned pasties (Pants and patriarchy, 18 February)?
Tim Grollman
London

• I’ve often suspected Wordwheel of carrying coded messages. Friday’s (17 February) was “hail trump”. Pure chance? Since the words “alt”, “hair” and “liar” also emerged, maybe not.
Robert Smith
Launceston, Cornwall

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