Your Letters
Surely this deserves to be chosen as the quote of the day? "He offered to postpone the wedding but personally I think it's dangerous to postpone a wedding" - England manager Roy Hodgson on John Ruddy's wedding plans.
MF, Oxford
Person shopping in pyjamas/nightwear/inappropriately saying at the wet fish counter: ''Is that crab dressed?'' You couldn't make it up.
Tim McMahon, Martos /Spain
Re this story, as a pharmacology student in the mid 70s, I was familiar with the effects of tetrodotoxin but we were told that it was found in the Japanese puffer fish (so called because of its ability to self inflate in the face of danger, so that the spines stood out). The fugu was never referred to as a 'blow fish'.
Rory Mescall, Stockport, England
"About 10 years ago, I reported on a class arranged for the parents of truants. Even though many of those due to attend had been ordered to go by a court, almost no-one turned up." Who'd have thought it - truancy has a genetic link.
Jenna, Bath