If, as Shahmir Sanni says (Report, 5 July), £0.7m would have made all the difference to the Brexit referendum result, can we reasonably project that the £9m the government spent on sending remain leaflets to every household in the country but which was not counted in the campaign expenditure would have made 14 times all the difference to the result?

Ian Holton

Tunbridge Wells, Kent

• I am delighted that women are now free to mention the word period (MP breaks House of Commons taboo by discussing her period, 29 June). Imagine the shame of being sent to the village haberdashery shop in the 1950s and being told to ask for a “ box of crackers”. Wrapped in brown paper in the back room.

Jean Jackson

Seer Green, Buckinghamshire

• Recently, when watering my allotment, I saw more small white butterflies (Letters, passim) than I could count, laying little yellow eggs on any brassica, except, for some reason pak choi.

Christopher Westall

Wolverhampton

• A friend worked for some years in Lagos. He took his standard leave, and made sure his Morris Traveller was raised above ground (Letters, 5 July). On his return, all appeared well until he opened the front door and shut it again – when the timber parts fell as powder to the ground.

David Critchlow

Poole, Dorset

• Re Mike Lattimer’s observations (Letters, 30 June), many years ago I once returned to my Traveller parked in a Lake District field to find a horse enjoying eating the wooden frame of my car.

Richard Robertson

Wigan

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