Emma Beddington’s memory of her children “wobbling in once a year” with breakfast on Mother’s Day (I worship Nigella Lawson. But I disagree with her – very strongly – about eating in bed, 16 September) made me smile as I remembered my son in his early teens proudly bringing me breakfast one Mother’s Day. He made boiled eggs with buttered toast but, being in a family known not to waste anything, he had made the tea from the boiled egg water. I managed to drink it, but we never fail to remind him of that little “treat”.
Jane Harding
Winchester
Bans on junk food ads (Report, 13 September) and lectures on obesity have limited effectiveness and can be counterproductive. Why not make learning to enjoy exercise, being outdoors and having a healthy diet key objectives of the primary school curriculum as they are in Finland? Enjoyment is the most powerful of all motivations.
Sandra Palmer
School governor, Manchester
One obvious answer for vegans who might be considering trying oysters (Letters, 15 September) would be to grow the root vegetable salsify, which is traditionally known as “the vegetable oyster”.
Philip John Heselton
Hull
Simon Tisdall thinks a dead Donald Trump would cause anarchy and unpredictability (Opinion, 16 September). What does he think a living Trump will cause and enable?
Brian Smith
Berlin, Germany
Many thanks to Lost Consonants’ creator, Graham Rawle (Obituary, 11 September), a man who had the ability to make us all gin.
Toby Wood
Peterborough
