Language lessons with a cherry on top
Although this happened decades ago, we haven’t forgotten the look of total incredulity on the face of an American fellow student whom our son brought home for the weekend (Letters, 18 January). She got up after a meal and announced: “I’ll just go and wash up”, to be met with a chorus of “No, no – please sit down, we’ll do all that.”
Peter Roland
Bognor Regis, West Sussex
• On eating an ice-cream sundae, I asked my companion if he would like my cherry. I quickly learned this was not an appropriate offer (he seemed to think it likely though).
Theresa Graham
Clevedon, North Somerset
• Marika Sherwood (Letters, 14 January) is correct that Peter Fryer’s book Staying Power should be available in all school libraries. However, more urgently, libraries should be available in all schools.
Richard Boon
London
• Lily Kuo reports many possible reasons for China’s declining birthrate (Report, 18 January), but does not mention the millions of “missing women” as a result of selective abortions and female infanticide.
Andy and Caroline Dearden
York
• In view of the state of politics worldwide, it seems entirely appropriate that we are entering the Chinese year of the rat.
Suellen Pedley
Faringdon, Oxfordshire
• My husband will be 89 in July and I will be 74 in August. We have just booked a cruise to the Azores and Iceland for 2022. We are so busy that we don’t have time to make marmalade.
Val Harrison
Birmingham
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