Not a peep about ace cinematographer Roger Deakins winning yet another Bafta (Report, 19 February), this time for Blade Runner 2049, which makes him the most nominated director of photography in history who hasn’t won an Oscar. He will have to be content with his lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Cinematographers and a few odd films like The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Skyfall etc.
Geoffrey Bull
Milborne St Andrew, Dorset
• I have no problem in recalling the order of the rivers of Yorkshire (Letters, 19 February), 68 years after our teacher told us to remember Sunwad: Swale, Ure, Nidd, Wharfe, Aire, Don still slips off my tongue.
Alan Sprod
Ampthill, Bedfordshire
• I expect that it’s useful to know your multiplication tables (Letters, 19 February). But as my dad used to say, it’s much more important to know your “gazinters”. As in “2 gazinter 10, 5”.
Ormond Simpson
Kenilworth, Warwickshire
• Four letters out of five in a row from professores emeriti (Letters, 20 February)? Haven’t these people anything better to do?
(Emeritus Professor) Mike Heath
Southbourne, West Sussex
• “How we made Peppa Pig” (G2, 20 February) still didn’t explain why the whole family have both eyes on the same side of the snout.
Graham Larkbey
London
• Which part of the body does the drug enhance to help someone win at curling (Sport, 20 February)?
James Williamson
Glasgow
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