Someone asks for help with ideas to use up 50kg of marrows, and the suggestion given is a cake requiring 15 other ingredients, plus several hours’ combined preparation and cooking, which would leave about 49.7kg of marrows to use on something else (How to turn a marrow glut into a glorious cake – recipe, 20 August). I use an unexpected glut of marrows for a marrow stock. Boil it, blitz it, freeze it – makes tasty soup stock for use all winter long.
Dagnija Innus
Penryn, Cornwall
• Every year this newspaper publishes photographs of ecstatic pupils, usually girls, their mouths covered in disbelief, holding their letters showing straight A passes in their exams. It would make a refreshing change to see somebody who had failed, tearing their letter into little pieces and stamping it into the ground.
David Godfrey
Eastbourne, East Sussex
• I have been quite beside myself since reading about the most recent worries of poor Pedanticus in your Journal print section (Chris Maslanka’s puzzles, 20 August), when we were asked: “Which word did he object to the pronunciation of?” Does this mean that I am now even more pedantic than he is?
Christine Lock
Wokingham, Berkshire
• Good to see that the Enough is Enough movement is picking up speed (Enough is Enough movement gathers pace with Andy Burnham latest backer, 24 August). I have a couple of yellow vests in the back of my car and I would be happy to send them over.
David Hollister
Lyon, France
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