Wonderful to know that microbes are evolving to eat plastics (Report, 14 December). I just hope they don’t get too good at it. Looking round this room, I would lose the keyboard I am typing this on, the phone, the file boxes, half the vacuum, plugs, the front-doorbell receptor, probably one handbag and all the CDs and DVDs. It would be terrifying to come in one morning and find that they had all jellified.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• My first tattoo, at 71 (Meet the people who had their first tattoo after 60, 14 December), is a celebration of my suffragette great-granny’s Holloway brooch, awarded to her by Emmeline Pankhurst. It was given to her after her stay in Holloway prison, where she, along with many others, was force-fed. The tattoo, on my wrist, is of the purple, white and green flashes from the middle of the brooch.
Sally Smith
Redruth, Cornwall
• The mayor of London aims to “rewiggle” its streams to alleviate flooding (Sadiq Khan leads ambitious plans to rewild Hyde Park, 14 December). If this proves impractical, then Northamptonshire can supply him with any number of “pre-wiggled” streams if the price is right.
Alan Woodley
Northampton
• Ms Percy might find that the guests leave even more quickly if her husband appears in the doorway without his pyjamas, not in them (Letters, 14 December).
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
• My aunt Marjorie used to announce: “I’m in my home and I wish everyone else was in theirs.” She wasn’t famous for hospitality.
Liz Fuller
London
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