Bob Brody, you may not yet have achieved great heights as a novelist, but your genius as an inventor should guarantee your immortality (‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection, 8 October). The illustration published with your article shows you at work on your typewriter, which appears to take in shredded paper and convert it to a sheet of A4 as you type. Genius.
Noel Chidwick
Edinburgh
• I enjoyed Bob Brody’s piece on learning to live with rejection, but I’m not expecting this letter to be published.
Lindsay Camp
Bristol
• Further to the correspondence about leftovers (Letters, 7 October), some years ago I was watching a dessert cookery programme with my mother-in-law. When the host suggested using stale sponge cake as a base, she exclaimed: “Stale? I didn’t even know it went cold!” This is now family folklore.
Margaret Clarke
Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Re your article (Two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and visits to GP, 5 October), as the adage goes, “motion is lotion, rest is rust”.
Joanna Rimmer
Newcastle upon Tyne
• Was the misspelling of Britain as “Britian” on chocolate bars handed out at the Conservative party conference an example of a failure in the use of IA (Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate, 6 October)?
Barry Coomber
Pinner, London
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