Whereas it’s so unhappy to listen to in regards to the decline within the variety of butterflies, partly because of the moist spring climate (‘Warning signal to us all’ as UK butterfly numbers hit report low, 29 July), I’ve declared it “the 12 months of the snail”, because the inhabitants of those creatures appears to have exploded this 12 months, with no birds such because the track thrush round to eat them.
Sheila Preston
Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
Sue Moser’s letter (Pylons will be fairly should you use your creativeness, 29 July) made me recall Stephen Spender’s poem The Pylons. In it, Spender refers to pylons as being symbolic of the affect of change and industrialisation, and describes them as being “like nude large women that don’t have any secret”.
Norma Postin
Rugby, Warwickshire
In her e book Past Black, Hilary Mantel wrote: “in pastureland, the pylons carry their skirts in a ferrous gavotte.” Fairly imaginative.
Jim Vickers
Redcar, North Yorkshire
Re your article on buying luggage (Variety of plastic luggage discovered on UK seashores down 80% since cost launched, 29 July), what about imposing a cost on canine poo luggage as properly, with a better premium for these which might be to be left held on bushes?
Elaine Steane
Oxford
The phrase I most feared listening to (Letters, 26 July) was when Tory ministers spoke of getting to make “tough choices”, as the problem all the time fell on us fairly than them. Sadly, our new authorities appears to need to proceed this charade.
Paul Johns
Stoke Poges, Bucking
