After reading your article (This livestream of baby bald eagles is the only thing keeping me sane, 27 May), I thought I’d share my recent rediscovery of Timmy Mallett. I found his bubbly personality a bit much for a Saturday morning as a child, but his posts on Facebook and other platforms about his cycle tour of Ireland are a brilliant break from the online doom and gloom.
Ruth Maddison
Moy, County Galway, Ireland
• Jane Tranter says “an audience will not be able to take their eyes off these strange curls or weird hats” (‘Not everybody spoke posh’ in Jane Austen’s era, says top producer, 27 May). Audiences routinely cope with talking animals, space aliens and even men with the head of an ass. We can cope with a hat.
Kirsty Nicol
Ormiston, East Lothian
• How wonderful to read about the new V&A East Storehouse (28 May) – another “national” museum in London, sucking up £65m of funding when dozens of museums outside the capital are facing extinction due to lack of it.
Norman Miller
Brighton
• Please inform Paul, my favourite crossword setter, that there is no reason why Quakers should not drink alcohol (Cryptic crossword, 30 May), and some of us do – in moderation, of course!
Frank Cosgrove
Presteigne, Powys
• Euan Dunn disputes a crossword clue, “Fuzzy green foodstuff – that flies!”, that had the solution “Kiwi” (Letters, 28 May). Has he never heard that fruit flies like a kiwi?
Bill McGinley
Chester
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