‘Monkey Christ’ is as good as a Picasso

A composite of Cecilia Giménez’s ‘Monkey Christ’ and Picasso’s 1941 watercolour Tête de Femme. Photograph: Reuters

I was intrigued by the similarity between two paintings recently featured in the Guardian: the Ecce Homo as restored by Cecilia Giménez (Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94, 30 December) and Tête de Femme by Pablo Picasso (€1m Picasso portrait up for grabs for €100 in charity raffle, 31 December). Perhaps Cecilia’s work is in need of a reappraisal.
Steve Shearsmith
Beverley, East Yorkshire

• I am delighted that, at the age of 88, I am finally at the forefront of fashion (Why the quarter-zip trend is about much more than jumpers, 29 December). I’ve been wearing quarter-zips for 25 years. No fiddly zips to slot together. Easy on, easy off. Zip up for a warm rollneck, or zip down and let in the air or tuck in a scarf.
Valerie Lewis
Wantage, Oxfordshire

• On a wall by the church in Isle Abbotts, Somerset, are incised the words “On this Spot on 12 June 1761 Nothing Happened”. So, nothing to do with the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar (Letters, 1 January). Unless rural Somerset was still catching up nine years on?
Robert Tilleard
Tisbury, Wiltshire

• A house in the village of Long Itchington, Warwickshire, bears a very realistic English Heritage plaque recording that “Jacob von Hogflume, 1864-1909, inventor of time travel, lived here in 2169”.
Brian Ferris
Tunbridge Wells, Kent

• “Six-seven” is not that new (Letters, 4 December). It’s a revival of an old saying – “at sixes and sevens” – signifying general chaos and disorder, which was quoted in Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore.
Bridget Marrow
Pinner, London

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