Re your article on bedtime stories (16 February), use a favourite duvet cover or quilt as the starting point. My favourite stories were made up by my mother telling me about the fabrics she had used to sew the patchwork quilt on my bed. “This was the dress I was wearing when your dad asked me to dance with him the first time…”
Lynne Pointer
Bampton, Oxfordshire
• As a northern lad born and bred in Derbyshire, I must correct Alan Hallsworth (Letters, 20 February). We always knew the saying as “Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred: strong in the arm and wick in the head”. Wick meaning lively and energetic.
Geoff Wheeler
Coventry
• As a small boy who got a place at Watford grammar school for boys back in 1949, I used to describe myself as “weak in the arm but strong in the head”.
Ron Brewer
Old Buckenham, Norfolk
• Growing up in South Africa, I, like many other children, went barefoot indoors and out unless to school or formal occasions (Letters, 20 February). Perhaps this created less floor cleaning than shoes did. I persist with this habit and have never had a foot injury in 70 years.
Colin Hartley
Deal, Kent
• A friend of mine was puzzled to discover a pack of shortbread in his online order (Phish Food for fish fillets? Strangest online grocery swaps revealed, 19 February). A check of his grocery list revealed it was a substitute for a small loaf.
Ged Gardiner
London
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