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Your Letters, MMM, Warners Group Publications, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH

Whose job is it?

I would like to thank Rachel Heath (Nov 2021, p18) for putting so succinctly what a lot of us think but have become tired of explaining.

In my experience many older couples do not ‘naturally split tasks based on their preferences’, but on outdated ideas of what is appropriate behaviour.

Of course, no one is being hurt, but it is the inappropriate message that we are inadvertently sending the younger generation that is the issue here. We need to make sure that future generations assume they are capable of doing every task and that every task is everyone’s responsibility.

You only need to read the many letters in this and other magazines where a woman has been stranded because she has never driven the motorhome and her male partner has become ill to see some of the potential problem.

I am a woman in my sixties, drive our motorhome and empty the toilet. I am probably much older than Rachel, but I also found the use of language in the article she refers to sexist and patronising.

Shame on the editor for not acknowledging Rachel’s point.

Angela Topham

Installing a Garmin sat-nav

I wanted to share an experience that I’ve had with a recently purchased Garmin Camper 780 sat-nav. I initially found this device to be everything the hype said it was. I was replacing a much used, but dated competitor’s sat-nav in my motorhome and this time I wanted one that I could factor in vehicle dimensions.

I had also decided that I wanted to make the installation look neater and to not have cables stretching across the front of the motorhome to a 12V or USB socket.

I arranged to have the sat-nav professionally installed in the dash. The sat-nav now looked like it was a standard fit and I was very pleased, no cables anywhere.

The initial install and downloads were done (although the updates did take what seemed like an age), but eventually everything was set. Everything was updated, the dimensions of my motorhome downloaded all ready for having destinations put in, and away we went.

It did exactly what I had hoped, routed us to a regular site we use, but this time didn’t try and send us by way of a very narrow single-track road.

So, where’s the problem, you may