Property News · August 7, 2022

Stock horror as lost Oxo cubes ruin camping trip | Brief letters


Washed away on holiday | Bleeding radiators | Beth Chatto’s dry garden | Rightwing jokesYour article (‘We always bring a teapot’: readers share the unusual items they take on holiday, 5 August) brought to mind a camping trip through France many years ago. Close to Calais, I went to wash up after dinner at the communal basins and next to me was an Englishman on his first evening on holiday. He filled his basin and emptied his cookware, crockery and cutlery into it, only to see two dozen sodden Oxo cubes rise to the surface. He was horrified as the cubes were an essential part of his camping cuisine. Ron JacobLondon• My parents’ love of old-fashioned country-style hotels led to a slightly unusual item on their packing list. They never went anywhere without a radiator bleeding key. Nicola CampbellMacclesfield, Cheshire Continue reading…

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