Fairytale joke by Penny Mordaunt: the tooth hurts | Short letters

Penny Mordaunt chose an unfortunate metaphor when she referred to the Big Bad Wolf’s dentures in her attack on Labour’s perceived duplicity towards the NHS (Politics live, May 2). If the wolf had been dependent on NHS dentistry under this government, Little Red Riding Hood would have had little to fear.
John Kelly
Little Raveley, Cambridgeshire

In 1969 I also made my own wedding dress (A moment that changed me: I made my own wedding dress – and learned to embrace imperfection, May 1). This was an easier task than for your writer. In those days if you bought the fabric and pattern from Copland & Lye department store in Glasgow they would measure you and cut out the pattern for you, which in my case eliminated the need to buy the fabric and pattern . , crawl across the living room floor, struggling with yards of fabric.
Anne Buchanan
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

As for the Garrick Club (the bitterly divided Garrick Club prepares to vote again on women’s membership, May 4), I’d like to know who’s doing the cleaning. Are their rules for this task being broken?
Angela Cooper
Sheffield

When I read your obituary of Duane Eddy (May 3), I remember listening to his album Have Guitar Will Travel that you mentioned. My friend’s mother loved the music and I remember her saying, “This Will Travel is very good, isn’t it?”
David Gerard
Edinburgh

How reassuring to hear that data on blocked school toilets was kept in a logbook (Letters, May 2).
Dr. Allan Dodds
Bramcote, Nottinghamshire