While visiting Wales a while ago, the temperature climbed into the 30s (How to beat the heat, G2, 24 July). As the natives all headed for the beach at Barry, my wife and I went underground at the Big Pit National Coal Museum. Cool!
Dave Collins
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
• When excavating by the Dead Sea in September, when the temperature was in the 40s, I found the best way to keep cool at night was to stuff one’s pillow into the dig-house fridge early in the morning. It occasionally curdled the milk, but I had a cool head in bed.
Chris Entwistle
British Museum
• Please could your columnists eschew three little words (How musicals got woke, G2, 24 July)? I have reached “peak” “woke” and “meme”.
Margaret Coupe
Buxton, Derbyshire
• Following futile attempts at cutting a shop-bought Christmas cake with a bread knife, hacksaw and fretsaw (Letters, 24 July), we eventually upended it and dug out the contents. After that, I made the family Christmas cake, covering it in soft fondant icing – delicious and definitely a cut above the commercial version.
Charmaine Fletcher
Basildon, Essex
• I didn’t own a Morris Minor (Letters, passim) but I do remember, in the early 1970s, seeing the archbishop of Canterbury being chauffer-driven around in one. It looked ever so spick and span.
Michael Chanan
London
• Is Danny Tanzey (Letters, 23 July) referring to Schrödinger’s Liverpool? Look at any map, Liverpool is on the right bank.
Martin Jeffree
Uckfield, East Sussex
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