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Ready, steady, get dressed, go
Rosie Millard, Philip Clothier, July 7 timesonline.co.uk/relationships
Please tell Dylan Jones, the editor of GQ, who gave his verdict on the couple’s scrub-up race, that despite his recommendation of wearing cologne as a quick fix for smartening up, that I don’t want his smell on my hands.
I’m sure that the cologne he mentioned was expensive, but it is still just another expression of the tidal wave of modern scents, fresheners, deodorants, fragrances, perfumes, odours by any other name, which assaults the nostrils in shops, homes, taxis, lifts, bars, restaurants, offices, streets, ad nauseam.
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I am not advocating a return to stale sweat and old socks, but my nose would very much like a rest from all these synthetic products. Anne Walter
Summer of our discount tents
Anna Shepard, July 7 timesonline.co.uk/ecoworrier I have been going to Glastonbury for many years and think that the photograph you used of unwanted muddy tents, sleeping bags and airbeds is not representative of the vast majority of people’s attitudes to their kit and their respect of the site in general. Yes, there always are and always will be some people who are too lazy to bother, or don’t care about leaving stuff or not taking it to a designated collection point, but the photo suggested that this is the norm.
With 177,500 people on site this year, 12,000 bins still seemed too few, but they are all emptied regularly, unlike other festivals. Added to this was a charming guy wandering around the fields with a guitar, singing his message of putting rubbish in bins. Lu Prentice
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So where’s the beef?
Suzi Godson and Dr Stuttaford, July 7 timesonline.co.uk/relationships Thomas Stuttaford and Suzi Godson both seem sympathetic to the old fella with a dwindling libido, but neither suggests that he buys his frustrated lover a vibrator. It’s a perfect solution; she could have a nice time and he could get out and cut the grass!
Penny Ward Me and my love machine
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Simon Crompton, July 7 timesonline.co.uk/driving Simon Crompton’s article on a new report on the psychology of driving says that driving with one hand on the wheel is an indication of mastery of the car. Surely this is more indicative of an inability to react to sudden emergencies than mastery of the vehicle. It makes one wonder why so many manufacturers design the wheel so that the driver’s hands can sit comfortably only on the bottom half, easily the least effective place to have them, or in the case of “car masters”, it. Barrie Collins
Naughty but nice
Michele Kirsch, June 30 timesonline.co.uk/relationships With regard to this article on how to strip, and all the other so-called style articles aimed at women that involve some sort of body enhancement, hopefully, in 50 years’ time, a quaint little e-book will be produced containing snippets of the above type of advice.
Maybe it will be entailed: “How to please your man/men: advice given to women in the early 21st century.” Hopefully the women of the future will raise a smile and say: “Imagine what it must have been like to live like them! Going to all that trouble and through all that pain (ie, waxing et al). Just to get a quick sh*g !” Bring back the 1970s! Dawn Churchill