Austen powers | Cherry shock | Fission assertion | Phrase to the sensible | As much as no good
Your articles offered two entertaining however very completely different approaches to kitting your self out for a music pageant (‘A godsend at 5am’, 12 June; Area the love, 13 June). One was all boots and head torches, the opposite fairly attire and earrings. How acceptable, on this Jane Austen anniversary 12 months, to see the contrasting calls for of Sense and Sensibility so clearly set out.
Mary Rooks
Leicester
• Adrian Chiles’ piece (Who may deny a scorching, drained supply driver the fruit from their cherry tree?, 12 June) jogged my memory of a tree we had on the entrance fringe of our backyard by the pavement. When its luscious purple fruits have been ripe, we’d usually see somebody pluck a handful, solely to spit them out a second later. They have been crab apples.
Gillian Macintosh
Burley-in-Wharfedale
