Rain check

Published: 27 May 2011

• TWO months without rain, and people are wasting water on cars and gardens. 

The fact is that we cannot manufacture the stuff. 

What we have, must be conserved. 

Get buddleia and cactus if you must have plants. 

Note how the butterfly shrub settles anywhere and grows.

Recently your paper has featured the work of cartoonist John Sadler. 

He is a genius. 

Anthony Radcliffe
Cartwright Gardens, WC1