If the list of most watched TV programmes on Christmas Day tells us anything, it’s surely that if a particular programme is made hard to avoid by running it on all the most popular TV channels (and GB News), it’s probably going to get the biggest audience. Not that nearly 7 million people actually chose to watch it (King Charles’s annual message is most watched TV show in UK on Christmas Day, 26 December).
Tony Green
Ipswich, Suffolk
• My favourite examples of the Merlin bird app making mistakes (Report, 27 December) are when it identified the peacocks at my local arboretum as ospreys, and when a siren went past on a nearby road and the app confidently told me it was a peregrine falcon.
Ingrid Warren
Oxford
• “My husband will only have sex with me when he has a letter printed in the Guardian. Is this normal?” I wonder what Pamela Stephenson Connolly might suggest (Threesomes, rough towels and ‘lesbian bed death’: 23 of the best Sexual Healing columns, 30 December).
Toby Wood
Peterborough
• In the 1990s, I used to commute on the A38. As I approached my destination, a new sign declared “Welcome to Plymouth – Spirit of Discovery”. It wasn’t long before some wit erased the “very” and made my journey that little bit cheerier (Letters, 28 December).
Sophia Sharif
Marazion, Cornwall
• In 2010, when walking the Cotswold Way, I encountered a large road sign at the Air Balloon roundabout on which appeared a very realistic tourist information sign indicating that one of the exits led to an “Official dogging site”.
Brian Ferris
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
• The hamlet of New Invention in Shropshire deserves a mention. Some time ago, the added comment on the sign was “Patent pending”.
John Cockell
Congleton, Cheshire
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