I note that the grades awarded to key people in the A-level fiasco are higher in the online version of your article than in the print version (Flunked: From Williamson to Ofqual, the grades are in, 19 August) for all except Boris Johnson, who is still graded U. Gavin Williamson goes up from F to E; Nick Gibb from E to D, and Ofqual from D to C. Who was responsible for upping their assessments? A clear instance of grade inflation.
Philippa Pigache
Cross in Hand, East Sussex
• Before Pam Wells starts on her damsons (Letters, 19 August), I suggest she reverses the order to freezing followed by pureeing. That way you can easily get the stones out with a sharp blow of a hammer to each fruit – a method adopted by my wife, a retired professor of physics well acquainted with experimental low-temperature techniques.
Richard Harley
Ropley, Hampshire
• When my cousin Sam went for his vasectomy (Letters, 19 August) the nurse approached, anaesthetic needle in hand and the words “Just a small prick, Mr Sansom”. “No one else has complained,” he replied.
Jennifer Basannavar
Twickenham, London
• It’s hard to visualise these interesting “small” objects (Engraved stones found on Jersey ‘an art form of 15,000 years ago’, 19 August) without knowing their actual size. What fraction of a football pitch, please?
Hazel Brothers
London
• Is it, perhaps, time for a rerun of the 1954 Goon Show episode The Missing Prime Minister?
John Leeming
London
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