Perhaps the increase in the families of birds visiting our garden this year is because they are not having to build their nests with rubbish (Safety concerns for chicks grow as birds build nests with rubbish, study shows, 10 July). For their luxury bedding, I hang, next to their feeders, a net bag of the fluff from the tumble dryer. They repay us with their numerous visits and wonderful plumage.
Helen Keating
Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway
• On the subject of ticket office closures (Letters, 6 July), a Leamington Spa to Reading peak day return ticket is £105.20; ask at the ticket office and you can get a peak day return split ticket for £42.00. Will the ticket machines offer this and how complicated will it be?
Diana Foster
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
• For anyone who tends to write the longest letters, Pascal offered the perfect apology: “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time” (The Guardian view on Blaise Pascal: a thinker for our times, 9 July).
Bruce Ross-Smith
Oxford
• Regarding reviewing items (Stop asking me for feedback. How am I supposed to review a tea towel?, 10 July), asking a customer to review the flavour of birdseed is a review too far.
Helen Evans
Ruthin, Denbighshire
• It’s obviously a childish mishearing to ask Our Father “what’s your name” (Letters, 10 July). In fact, it is clearly stated that “Harold be thy name”.
Jem Whiteley
Oxford
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