Just like Tim Dowling’s wife (Tim Dowling: my wife is alone while I’m on tour. Will she cope?, 15 April), I had the house to myself while my other half went off on a jolly with old uni chums. To treat myself, I bought a small bottle of champagne. I was looking forward to this mini celebration, but when the moment came, I couldn’t open it. C’est la vie.
Christine Hayes
Wokingham, Berkshire
• Re your article on plastic packaging in supermarkets (‘Change is always difficult’: from no lids to vac-packs, the war on plastic packaging divides opinion, 14 April), one customer complained that a pack of vacuum-packed meat “resembled a body part”. Er ... what part of minced beef is not a body part?
David Gordon
Manchester
