Photograph: Nick Briggs
Sharp intake of breath on reading Chitra Ramaswamy’s statement that Pembrokeshire is the only coastal national park (Last Night’s TV, G2, 8 March). True, it is the only fully coastal one, but here in North Yorkshire we have the best national treasure of all in a park with heather moors, beautiful villages nestling in valleys, heritage and craftspeople aplenty as well as a delightful varied coastline.
Felicity Brown
Nether Poppleton, North Yorkshire
• Why is Richard Curtis’s film so popular (Love Act-two-ally, G2, 13 March)? It features a prime minister who stands up to an American president. Could only happen in fiction.
John Loader
Leyburn, North Yorkshire
• Food and phones are not the only annoyances at the theatre these days (Letters, 9 March). On a bus recently I overheard a conversation that recounted a performance where, when the lights went down, the lady in the next seat opened her handbag and took out a dog.
Mervyn Bryn-Jones
Twickenham
• I recall that in 1950s north London, bakers sold squares of sponge cake covered with pink icing (Letters, passim) called Tottenham cake. However, I sometimes caused laughter when I asked for Tottenham pudding, which was boiled food scraps that were set solid and fed to pigs.
Ron Elam
London
• I’d love a Guardian apron (Letters, 13 March) and would be prepared to pay for it. It could join the silk scarf I have printed with the banner headings from the Manchester Guardian 6 May 1821 (in old English text) through the years to 1969.
Helen Keating
Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway
• How about a new apron with recipes for leftover pastry?
Jean Jackson
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
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