Why I use my phone in the theatre | Brief letters

Letters: Hearing aids | Dog house | Nicola Sturgeon | Nine times table | Triggered by maths

Further to Nadia Khomami’s piece on the use of phones in theatres (6 June) and Rosamund Pike’s lecture from the stage (1 June), while agreeing with the general drift, I’d like to sound a note of caution. Some of us wear hearing aids that are controlled by Bluetooth. Sometimes we need to adjust the settings to properly hear what the hell is going on. From the vantage of the stage, it probably looks like we’re texting. Actors would need the eyesight of a sparrowhawk to tell the difference. Meanwhile, I’m dialling up assistance to aid full immersion in the experience.
Jerry Wellens
Bwlchgwyn, Wrexham

• Should your dog have its own bedroom, your article asks (7 June). Is this a joke? My dog has her own house! She does, very kindly, let me stay here, too, on condition that I do all the food prep and cleaning, and don’t use her ¾ share of the sofa.
Phil Uribe
Llandrindod Wells, Powys

• To be fair to the former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon (31 June), if my husband came home with those Lalique salt and pepper grinders, I’d assume he’d got them in a charity shop.
Katy Jennison
Witney, Oxfordshire

• The letters talking of ways of computing the nine times table (4 June) are fun and interesting but, of course, for nine, it only works in base 10. The mathematical questions are: why does it work and would it work in other number bases?
Louise Lewis
London

• I failed my maths O-level five times. Please, all this nine times table stuff is very triggering.
Andrew Vincent
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

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