A warm Welsh welcome should be deserving of reciprocation (A brimming biscuit tin and a warm welcome – this is how an Englishman found his home in Wales, 30 December). And so I would ask all of my English fellow countrymen and women who move to Welsh-speaking communities, in particular, to learn the language. Love not just the vernacular architecture here but also the vernacular. Appreciate not only the landscape but the culture. Embrace this precious thing or it will be lost to all of us.
Michael (Meic) Birtwistle
Trefenter, Ceredigion
• David Smith has confused his tinned milks (Letters, 30 December). “Jelly whip” was actually made from evaporated milk, not condensed. The jelly was made as normal, but with only half the usual amount of water, then allowed to almost set, after which a large tin of evaporated milk was whisked in, and it was allowed to fully set. I loved it made with strawberry or raspberry jelly, but always felt that orange was a mistake.
Lillian Adams
Hereford
• I read the letters (27 December) in response to Jonathan Freedland’s article (‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have, 20 December) through a veil of tears. Wet splodges on the paper. Thank you (keyboard now wet).
Claudia Campbell
Brightlingsea, Essex
• Does Gareth Southgate’s knighthood come with a waistcoat-of-arms (Arise, Sir Gareth: Southgate given knighthood in new year honours list, 30 December)?
Jude Carr
London
• Why no knighthood for David Beckham? Unfathomable.
Maggie James
Cambridge
• A summer Olympics every two years (Sean Ingle, 30 December)? Aaaaargh! Don’t we suffer enough?
Leigh Stenson
Barnard Castle, County Durham
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