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Hot tip
Sir: Joe Boswell (letter, 3 February) might save some trouble by emulating Lord Berners, who travelled on the train with a clinical thermometer. The frequent insertion of same under the tongue, and the subsequent anxious shaking down of the mercury, usually allowed him to travel alone.
SIMON RENDALL
Sevenoaks, Kent
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