Your editorial (4 May) is spot-on, except that you did not mention the Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong on Friday at 8.55am, which is now an essential part of our lockdown week. We can sing our hearts out, and we do, but nobody will ever hear us – such a release, and a relief.
Mark Brackley
Fleetwood, Lancashire
• Edna O’Brien, describing the books that made her (Review, 1 May), reveals her love of prayer books as a child. My “bible” in the 1950s for bedtime reading was to insist that my mother read the Be-Ro recipe book. The gentle rhythm of listing the ingredients and following baking instructions would send me to sleep.
Val Mainwood
Wivenhoe, Essex
• I was disappointed to see two recipes in the spring vegetable edition (Feast, 2 May) contained courgettes. Most gardeners have only just sowed their cucurbits, as they are a tender annual. How can we eat seasonally if we’re being tempted by forbidden fruit?
William Fuest
Wheddon Cross, Somerset
• Time to introduce a new verb to the dictionary? To unfrighten, as in “the government aims to unfrighten millions of passengers terrified of commuting by train ever again”.
Terry Hunt
London
• I notice that there have been no reported cases of Covid-19 on San Serriffe. Maybe it is because its currency is the corona?
John Mends
St Albans, Hertfordshire
• I am becoming concerned that if an exit plan is not announced soon, you will exhaust the supply of letter-writing professors at Imperial College London.
Phil Dowell
Bridport, Dorset
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