Fear not, George Grundy in fact said “back off” not “buck off” (or anything worse) in last Friday’s episode of The Archers (Letters, 23 August).
Jeremy Howe
Editor, The Archers
• What’s Going On seems a strange song to choose as the best to have sex to (‘Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath blew my mind’: Robert Patrick’s honest playlist, 29 August). Did Robert Patrick mean Let’s Get It On?
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
• I’ve just finished reading Helen Dunmore’s fine book Siege, about a family surviving the Leningrad siege that began in 1941. Full of useful tips for the winter ahead.
Dr Nigel Morgan
Faversham, Kent
• Your editorial (28 August) describes blackberries as “a late August treat”. Not in the north-east, where I grew up. We had to wait until the late October half-term holiday, which was always known as blackberry week.
Wyn Jeffery
Southampton
• Naming storms trivialises them (Brace yourself for Daisy: Met Office reveals list of storm names for 2022-23, 1 September). We should enumerate them, if only so that we become aware of their frequency.
Michael Heaton
Warminster, Wiltshire
• I had great pleasure in demonstrating to my grandchildren the making of a quill pen with a Victorian penknife and a goose feather (Letters, 31 August).
William Heffer
Cambridge
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