Watching the Women’s Euro 2022 final, our six-year-old grandson announced: “I’d like to be a real footballer like them when I’m older” (England’s win against Germany is only the beginning for the women’s game, 31 July).
John Kirkwood
Sheffield
• How long before the combined intellects of Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg proclaim the Euro win as another Brexit triumph?
Clifton Melvin
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
• How are the deludedly mighty fallen (Spoilt and unruly children playing dress-up: how the Tories stopped being serious, 30 July)? A party preference for pussy bows or Prada shoes is hardly the most credible way to determine the best prime minister.
Austen Lynch
Garstang, Lancashire
• Despite being a health visitor at the time, the book that kept me sane during the early years of my two daughters was How Not to Be a Perfect Mother by Libby Purves (Letters, 29 July). Perfect advice for anyone struggling with the frustrations of parenthood.
Jo Corby
Nottingham
• I was pleased to hear about potato scallops (Brutalism, brilliant brews and the balti triangle: 20 reasons to love Birmingham, 28 July). My mother used to cook scallops as a Saturday night treat and she called them klondikes. The reason for this I do not know, but they were delicious.
Gillian Howell
Swansea
• The obituary of James Lovelock (27 July) was co-written by Pearce Wright, who died in 2005. You obviously commission these obits well in advance so maybe you’re looking for someone to write mine? I have friends who might oblige.
Giles Youngs
Drinkstone, Suffolk
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