Source: TheGuardian
What my parents didn’t do in the war | Brief letters
Bletchley Park’s Fusion Room | Queen’s Park Rangers | A new Boat Race tradition | Thames Water | One-way ticket to RwandaMy parents worked in the same team at Bletchley Park, in the Fusion Room (Letters, 25 March). When asked, my mother said she was a telephonist. The accepted stereotype dampened curiosity. My father warned off questioners by telling them he spent the war “painting spots on rocking horses”. The Fusion Room, which barely figures in accounts of the Bletchley achievements, was full of talented women (Cambridge college unmasks alumnae who were Bletchley Park codebreakers, 17 March).Prof Dame Helen WallaceLondon• Michael Gove’s visits to QPR matches are being treated as perks (Michael Gove guilty of standards breach for not registering VIP football tickets, 25 March)? If my husband’s mood when he returns from QPR’s games is anything to go by, Gove should be rewarded for such selfless suffering.Mary FoleyWandsworth, London Continue reading......read full article
