Re your article (Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine, 9 February), if you can believe wheat and alcohol are flesh and blood, I’m sure you could cope with an oatcake and a slug of grape juice being bread and wine.
Henry Malt
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
• The government seems to dub everyone who opposes a development for whatever reason a nimby (More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones, 8 February). Should we now refer to Starmer, Reeves, Rayner and housebuilders as badees – Build Anywhere Despite the Environmental Effects?
Tim Edmundson
London
• Janet Mansfield may well do “the washing” rather than “the laundry” (Letters, 7 February), but I’m fairly sure a laundry basket is involved.
Michael Robinson
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
• My A-level English teacher reported that I had no gift for words (Letters, 10 February). When I met her after my first two books had been published, she said they were “only” crime novels.
Judith Cutler
Cirencester
• On my prowess in one of my least favourite subjects, my history teacher gave me a glowing report. The headmaster added his own comment: “He must be thinking of the wrong boy.” Ouch!
Andrew Ockwell
Chichester
• When my national service ended, my report read: “He has never adapted his ways to that of the army and has remained adamantly civilian.”
Terence Padden
Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester
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