Following my letter (23 June) complimenting the Royal Mail on delivering a letter from another reader to me with no house number, street or postcode, this week I received another addressed in exactly the same way from Peggy, who writes “Just checking whether Royal Mail can do it twice. Maybe first time was a fluke.” Evidently not. Perhaps it’s my fame as a beyond-“genius” Word Wheel player that’s helped locate me?
Kevin Ward
Quorn, Leicestershire
• “What would British culture be like if Oasis had never existed?”, asks Dorian Lynskey (theguardian.com, 1 July). If nothing else, it’s hard to imagine the final scene of the 1996 BBC TV drama Our Friends in the North being anything like as devastating without Don’t Look Back in Anger playing out on the soundtrack.
Jim Penn
Reading, Berkshire
• Read my outdoor thermometer: 35.3C. Converted it to fahrenheit: 95.5. Immediately felt nearly three times hotter!
Valerie Gidlow
Faversham, Kent
• As a newly qualified teacher in 1978, I marked all work in green ink (Letters, 30 June). It seemed kinder than red.
Deborah Dickinson
London
• Have the recent brief letters on the misuse/irritating use of English come from correspondents’ own “lived experience”?
Peter Urwin
Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire
• Don’t get me started on “don’t get me started”.
Ross Bradshaw
Nottingham
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