My family suggests that my frogspawn records over the last 15 years are a sign of eccentricity, so I was delighted to read the letter from Evvy Edwards (28 February). The earliest date for our pond was 21 February in 2011; the latest was 16 March in 2013. We moved house last year and, of course, the frogs came too. I am anxiously waiting to hear the loud croaking chorus that is a sign that the frogspawn will arrive in the next few days.
Judith Abbs
London
• No tomatoes? No problem in the little greengrocers in my Thames valley town (Lidl becomes latest retailer to ration sales of salad ingredients, 27 February). There’s all manner of salad stuff. Peppers galore and beautiful tomatoes – big, little, all colours, striped ones, flattish ones, all stacked against the walls of this tiny shop. I’m spoilt for choice.
Jo Burden
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
• How interesting that the minister for food is called Mark Spencer. I wonder where he does his food shopping?
Jane Harding
Winchester
• This week, I spotted several Bairstow toby jugs of British prime ministers on sale at our local antiques centre. While other past premiers had slumped to £10 a jug, Boris Johnson was booming at £45. Is this a portent?
Jerry Park
Nantwich, Cheshire
• As a non-Welsh-speaking, opera- and bread-sauce-hating atheist, am I ever going to get a letter in the Guardian? Answers on a ChatGPT-generated postcard please.
Kevin Donnelly
Sanremo, Italy
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