Seeing Grayson Perry sitting astride his motorbike (Grayson Perry on art, cats – and the meaning of life, 9 November), I was immediately reminded of the Triumph Pink Witch bicycle of my youth as it also was pink and turquoise. How I longed for one! I was lucky enough to be given a new bicycle for my 11th birthday. There was not a lot of money around, and I was thrilled to have it, but I always coveted the Pink Witch!
Jill Hughes
Cranbrook, Kent
• Re George Monbiot’s article (Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown, 10 November), can Davos 2022 now be cancelled or, at least, made virtual?
Karen Shaw
Crowborough, East Sussex
• Whether or not Rev Trevor Smith is indeed “missing something” by querying whether “gender” should replace “sex”, I am unqualified to say (Letters, 9 November). But surely he of all people must have come across the observation by Rev Sydney Smith that there are three sexes: men, women and clergymen?
Father Alec Mitchell
Holyhead, Anglesey
• Reading Linda Gresham’s letter on thoughtfully stockpiling them from M&S last year (8 November), I smiled too while checking my one- and two-year-old homemade Christmas puddings. I try to keep ahead, where possible.
Pat Notley
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• Bad news for Linda Gresham: if M&S has indeed already run out of 12-month-matured Christmas puddings, there will be none for her to buy, reduced, in January!
Liz Kilpatrick
Dumfries
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