G&T time

SIR – As an affirmed G&T aficionado, and after half a lifetime in the marine industry, I must question Craig Heeley’s assertion (Letters, November 25) that it’s “G&T time at five bells of the clock”.

All mariners know that five bells is either 2.30, 6.30 or 10.30 (am or pm) – all of which, in my view, are either too late or too early for a G&T.

Graham Wistow

Holmfirth, West Yorkshire

SIR – When I was a young man starting work in the City, I took a call from a client for my boss, who was not in the office. She suggested he might ring her back at “dressing time” – not a phrase in general use in the lowly streets of Tottenham back then.

Brian Howard

Enfield, Middlesex