It is notoriously difficult to use words to describe movement, so thank you to Lyndsey Winship, in her review of R:Evolution at Sadler’s Wells (3 October), for characterising “weightless développés” as “rock solid but buttery soft”. I can feel exactly what she means – especially important as I shall not be able to see the show. Makes me wish I could, though.
Tina Sharpington
Lincoln
• It’s perhaps not the sort of tribute she would have welcomed, but your obituary of Jane Goodall (2 October) might have mentioned Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon where a chimp is finding blond hairs in her mate’s fur and asks him “Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
Bryn Hughes
Wrexham
• The “Finnish ‘baby box’” (Tech bros want women to have more babies. But they’re going about it the wrong way, 28 September) was introduced in Scotland in 2017, and is provided with a mattress, bedding and a changing mat, suitable for use in all sorts of difficult housing situations.
Fiona Allen
Edinburgh
• For the pedantic: you cite Shelagh Delaney as a Manchester artist (Editorial, 1 October). She was in fact from Salford – home also to many talented artists over the years, including LS Lowry and Albert Finney.
Alan Watson
Manchester
• It’s not just US comedians (US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia, 30 September). Jimmy Carr and Jack Whitehall have also signed up for the Riyadh comedy festival.
Paula Farrell
River, Kent
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