THELMA Edwards and her dear old chaps of the Cowcaddens (Letters, April 13) have certainly brought your pages alive with the “buzz of the bunnet”.

Hopefully R Russell Smith’s doolander (Letters, April 18) will do the trick for his adorned bonce; my late father’s balding bonce once benefited from my bunnet; I have inherited it from him. If bunnets could talk, what a tale it would tell: a witness to much self-retribution on golf courses of old, black humour abounding, I am sure.

Brian D Henderson,

44 Dundrennan Road, Battlefield, Glasgow.

WHILST having to decline the lovely invitation to go “bunnet-watching” over in Strathaven (William S Cooper, Letters, April 16) and wondering how it differs from bird-watching, as I drove from Kelso after arranging to have the snow-tyres removed and the regular tyres replaced (as hopefully winter is past now,) I happened to hear a little of Moneybox on Radio 4. There I learned that men have an unfortunate tendency to be younger than women when they expire, thus often leaving their partners/spouses to cope with household expenses on lower incomes. I try to be economical, as advised, by freezing my bread and fishing out a slice as needed, to save it from going mouldy; though I do prefer fresh vegetables to frozen ones.

Now, I realise that men do not wish for the die-younger option but maybe they could give things a bit more consideration and hang about a bit longer? Perhaps all they need to do, as happens around Strathaven, is to take up bunnet-wearing again, and repel the Grim Reaper?

Thelma Edwards,

Old Comrades Hall,

Hume, Kelso.