Don’t fear the reaper, it’s a waste of time | Brief letters

OS merchandise | Death advice | Sitwell siblings | Lewes bonfire | Banknote designYour entertaining article (Met merch: the thin blue bottom line, 1 November) says “the UK could profit from its cartographic design icons by producing Ordnance Survey artwork”. Have you not looked at the OS shop site? They’re already using their imagination. We bought a couple of picnic blankets a year ago: one with a map of the Lake District, one of the New Forest. They were very well received by