At least people who suffer low back pain used to be able to turn to acupuncture to get the placebo effect. Now that Nice have recommended it no longer be available on the NHS (Stop treating low back pain with acupuncture, NHS told, 25 March), what placebo can they turn to? I recommend Easter eggs, a great source of distraction.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• Now you’ve gone too far in the call for impossible-to-find ingredients. What on earth is leftover chocolate (Front-page trail for Cook section, 26 March)?
Suzanne Perkins
London
• I cannot believe you published a recipe for hot cross buns on Saturday! Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
Susannah Hutchinson
Evesham, Worcestershire
• Fr Alec Mitchell reminds us that apparently immovable stones can be inexplicably rolled away (Letter, 26 March) on the same day as four ancient Stones rolled (or flew) into Cuba.
Toby Wood
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• After reading, on page 38, Anna Wyndham’s letter (26 March) insisting that Richard Dawkins “will not get the last word”, I learned, on page 53, that it was his birthday that day.
Ian Grieve
Steyning, West Sussex
• Happy 100th birthday to Edith Pierce (Good to meet you..., 26 March). What a marvellous account of a life – an inspiration to us all.
Lorna Oliver
Alsager, Cheshire
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