When our neighbour’s car broke down in a rather terminal way recently, I offered him the use of ours (Letters, 9 June). We don’t use it very much and it seemed like a good idea all round – he doesn’t do many miles either, keeps it topped up with petrol and keeps it clean. He’s also a great baker, and I’m just about to cut myself a slice of the beetroot-bread loaf that he brought round last night, so it seems that everybody’s a winner.
Peter Hanson
Whitestone, Exeter
• I disagree with your view that Woking is probably most famous for being the inspiration for the Jam’s hit song Town Called Malice (‘Eye-watering’: how Woking council’s glittering dream turned to dust, 9 June). It’s clearly most famous for being completely destroyed in HG Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds. They even have a statue of a Martian tripod in Woking.
Katharina Fritsch
Brandenburg, Germany
• The decline in numbers taking up the recorder is a great shame (Letters, 6 June). My 35-year-old daughter started her musical education at the age of five when her class were each given a recorder. She became an accomplished flautist, saxophonist and pianist, but it does require a degree of tolerance when our four-year-old granddaughter has a go. Hopefully history will repeat itself.
Alan D Connell
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
• Congratulations, Royal Mail, on the swift delivery of a Christmas card, posted first-class on 16 December from Surrey to Bristol.
Jane Ghosh
Bristol
• Pete Lavender’s advive (Letters, 8 June) aboit turning off autocorrdct has come in hsndy. Many thamka.
Paul Briggs
Bath
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