Guide badges | Phone eavesdropping | 2CVs | Drying the washing | Stockpiling food On finding out that our Guide captain’s husband was a test pilot, I learned to fly a plane sitting on her floor, taught by her husband – and I passed! I never lost my love of aircraft. I wonder if they still have an aircraft badge ( Letters , 30 July)? Sheena Thompson Chesterton , Oxfordshire • In the 1960s when I called my girlfriend from a callbox ( Letters , 30 July) we could chat for hours without extra charges as long as we kept the subject “interesting”, but when it got down to “how’s your mother?” the operator would come on to ask for further money. Ken Ducker Yorkley, Gloucestershire Continue reading...