After The Great Pottery Throwdown, it’s good to see the Guardian chronicling yet another cultural development pertaining to Stoke-on-Trent (‘A beacon of change’: new film to celebrate life of ceramicist Clarice Cliff, 17 March). Those of us who live and breathe Stoke-on-Trent, and are hoping that the film about Clarice Cliff will get the authentic Potteries dialect “reyt”, will be willing it to boost cultural tourism for north Staffordshire’s pottery outlets, museums, canals and other attractions as soon as it’s safe. Wishing you were here.
Joan Walley
Stoke-on-Trent
• To answer Adrian Chiles: a dictionary, an encyclopaedia, a book of quotations … all (still) basic stock of any good bookshelf (‘Is Hamlet about a small village?’ asked Grandad. At least this generation can Google it, 17 March).
Susannah Everington
Marshwood, Dorset
• If the clues to the quick crossword don’t get any easier, I shall be forced to buy a red-top instead of the Guardian. Disturbing my morning-routine brain-training is not good for my mental health.
Barbara Gray
Coldstream, Scottish Borders
• A sub-heading in the print edition of your long read about Boris Johnson (18 March) says “We put a fool in charge”. On behalf of just about every Guardian reader, could I protest that we didn’t do that?
David Garner
Southport, Merseyside
• Do I sense another north-south divide? In Yorkshire and my home county, Cumbria, they are definitely pompom hats (Letters, 17 March). Maybe they are bobble hats in the south?
Barry Norman
Leeds
