Re the excellent and somewhat horrifying solutions from chefs for hangover breakfasts (14 April), many years ago, I was in a hotel in Tenerife, indulging in group commiserations about our enfeebled states. I said the only thing I could face was two Anadin and vanilla ice-cream, which duly materialised, served immaculately on a doilied plate. That has since become my gold standard for hotel service. Incidentally, it really works.
Fiona Allen
Edinburgh
• As we return for tonsorial treatment from our possibly out-of-practice hairstylists, we should not only remember William Prynne’s fulminations in the 1630s against excessively flowing tresses (Editorial, 11 April), but also the very fate that befell him – having his ears clipped.
Ian Thackray
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
• Lord Hay is lucky that his path to British citizenship is relatively straightforward (Irish-born DUP peer refuses to take Home Office test for British passport, 14 April). At least nobody is threatening him with deportation, the fate of so many of the Windrush generation.
Sue Durham
Cambridge
• I’d like to ask Jeremy Paxman if “any fool” could read out the questions from a card picked up by the person hosting University Challenge (Reeta Chakrabarti rejects Jeremy Paxman’s claim ‘any fool’ can read news, 13 April).
Ian Ferguson
Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire
• “Bat ball” would be a better name for the sport of cricket. “Stick ball” is golf (Letters, 14 April).
Richard Lewis
Nunthorpe, North Yorkshire
