Re the best music festivals (Give it some welly: the 30 best UK music festivals still available to book, 1 April), I believe you have missed a significant one from your list, in the category “Best for epic scenery”. Steelhouse festival at Hafod-y-Dafal Farm near Ebbw Vale is at the top of a mountain, with views for miles. But when the heavens open – and they sometimes do – you are reminded how high in the sky you are.
Gareth Davies
Blaenafon, Monmouthshire
• Jess Cartner-Morley (Farewell, sweet floral midi. Hello, breezy trouser suit, 31 March) and John Lewis are not usually wrong when it comes to fashion. But in the case of the demise of the floral midi dress, I believe they are. On a hot day you need to wear something cool and floaty, not a trouser suit, even a loose one. I have plenty of floral midi dresses that I will continue to wear. For those of us not living in London, nothing is ever “over”.
Jill Timms
Kenilworth, Warwickshire
• Presumably, if British cows are given methane blockers (Report, 2 April), we have to say that the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals may not be so far-fetched after all.
Richard Bryant-Jefferies
Epsom, Surrey
• Don’t ban private jet flights (Report, 30 March). Tax the hell out of them, with highest rates falling on the shortest flights.
Richard Ehrlich
London
• I was delighted to discover on Saturday that Wordiply allows “embiggen” as a perfectly cromulent word. Thank you Wordiply (and the Simpsons).
Richard Percy
Newburgh, Lancashire
• The third brief letter was amended on 4 April 2023 to correct the spelling of Pink Floyd.
