While I have been moved by the coverage of Terry Jones’s dementia (Letters, 6 October), are other readers uncomfortable with the current Doonesbury Classics series in which people are “exploring” in Ronald Reagan’s brain? Since we learned that Reagan had a form of dementia, possibly while he was still US president, it seems inappropriate to repeat these cartoons.
Anthony Marsh
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
• I wonder whether the all-over futurist clothing from high fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld, with its white plastic robot masks (Chanel goes sci-fi, 5 October), would be acceptable on the beach in the south of France? Far more scary than the burkini.
Jeffrey Tobias
London
• “The Fat Duck, which seats only 38 people, gets between 20,000 and 30,000 phone calls a day […] but not many get through” (Fat Duck regains its three-star Michelin rating, 4 October). How did the anonymous Michelin inspectors manage to book eight times?
Dr Ashley Chantler
Wallasey, Merseyside
• The recipe for paella a la campina in Spanish Cooking (1957, by Elizabeth Cass, a resident of Gibraltar and a traveller in Spain) includes ham, chicken, chorizo – and small singing birds. Clearly Jamie Oliver was trying to avoid offence by excluding an ingredient (Letters, 6 October; Report, 5 October).
Roger Thomson
Chichester
• Childhood holidays on the Yorkshire coast were often subject, not to “sea frets” or “haars” (Letters, 6 October), but to a sea “roke” which, I am told, is, like “reek”, related to the Danish word røg, meaning “smoke”.
Dr John Dent
Melrose, Roxburghshire
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