Save your energy – use a dishwasher

Re your article (The invisible women, G2, 17 October), as an ex-architect turned design and technology teacher (childcare issues), I contacted the publishers of our A-level textbook to explain that Ray Eames was not the brother of Charles but his wife. Of course, when the next edition was published the same misconception was repeated.
Pat Makinson
Ramsgate, Kent

• Jo Steranka states: “Get rid of your dishwasher – it wastes energy and water” (Letters, 18 October). In fact, a dishwasher uses much less energy and water (as little as one-sixth, with modern machines) than washing by hand. The belief that anything that makes life easier must be worse for the environment is built on unfortunate moralistic foundations.
Colin Ferguson
London

• With the greatest respect to Jo Steranka, why do we need to “hire a car to go on holiday”? Over the years my husband and I have been to Italy, Poland, France and numerous places in the UK, using trains and buses (and our legs).
Rose Harvie
Dumbarton

• Suzan Delivuk (Letters, 18 October) suggests a visit to one’s GP to receive the flu jab. I made my appointment last week and turned up on Wednesday this week. Clean out of the vaccine. New appointment made for early November. What a shambles!
Bernadette Crowley
Wallasey, Merseyside

• While it was pleasing to see a review of Meic Povey’s Fel Anifail (17 October), it might have been helpful to advise readers that the play is in Welsh (if with simultaneous translation for non-Welsh speakers).
David Landau
Cardiff

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