Adrian Chiles and those similarly afflicted (Dear Santa, please bring back the plastic lids on yoghurt pots, 18 December) need to discover a set of reusable stretch silicone lids. An added bonus is that they do not fall off if you drop the yoghurt pot.
Jacqui Moore
Knutsford, Cheshire
• I was doing quite well on the run-up to Christmas, fending off all the bad stuff. And then the news that brussels sprouts will be bigger this year (Brussels sprouts will be 25% bigger this year, thanks to silt and sea breezes, 15 December). And a merry Christmas to you.
Richard Barnard
Wivenhoe, Essex
• I used to think that Cheddar Gorge was merely about eating a lot of cheese; clearly not (‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism, 16 December).
Martin Datta
Lincoln
• I’ve just had a letter, the first for years, from a developer offering to buy my garden. Is it to solve the “housing crisis” or to make us both salivate at the prospect of wealth (Letters, 15 December)?
John Bailey
St Albans, Hertfordshire
• In response to Nigel Gann’s question “why is it that so many Old Etonians seem unable to read the room?” (Letters, 10 December), the answer is that their power is such that they usually don’t have to.
Rob Parsons
Ringmer, East Sussex
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