Grace Dent, in her review of the restaurant 64 Goodge Street (‘You can imagine a Helena Bonham Carter character lunching here’, 25 August), suggests that “no one has ever purred seductively” about Goodge Street. I suspect that she is far too young to remember Donovan’s Sunny Goodge Street – not seductive perhaps, but certainly a moving romantic picture of 1960s London. As is her review of the restaurant.
Nigel Roseveare
London
Further to Alys Fowler’s article on collecting seeds, I strongly recommend adding rocket, Eruca vesicaria, to her list (Never buy vegetable seed again!, 24 August). From an original sowing in 2010, I have been collecting seeds annually and sowing them the following year. These germinate rapidly, the leaves can be cut repeatedly, a succession of sowings can be made throughout the growing season and it is a source of nectar for pollinating insects.
Dr John Osley
Abergele, Conwy
Re your report on NS&I bonds (Ethical savings: NS&I raises rate on green bond to 5.7%, 26 August) , the government recently changed the definition of green energy to include nuclear energy. Readers may want to consider whether they wish their savings to go to constructing uneconomic, morally doubtful and potentially dangerous nuclear power stations.
Shayne Mary Mitchell
Cambridge
The ousted NatWest chief Alison Rose is to receive a £2.4m pay packet (Report, 23 August). Just wondering what sort of package Wilko workers will get (Wilko to close ‘majority of stores’ with loss of thousands of jobs, 23 August)?
Allan Brown
Peterborough
