Bryn Austin’s “experience that the Guardian lights fires very well” could not be further from my own (‘The Guardian lights very well’: how newspaper came to aid of stranded geologist, 29 April). Any savings I make through your voucher scheme are swallowed up by the money I spend on lighter fuel and matches to persuade your paper to catch alight sufficiently (or at all) to ignite the kindling above it in my living room open fire and my workshop stove.
The market stall trader from whom I have been buying petrol lighter fuel for years told me he had thought of reporting me to the police as a potential terrorist or arsonist on account of the quantities I was buying.
