Cash in the cupboard for life’s essentials | Brief letters
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Smart money storage | The root of solving crosswords | Pink rabbit birthday treats | Chancers and buffoons | Facebook facts. When my father died in 1982, I retrieved the cash box (green, metal, with a lock) on a string, hooked to the back of a cupboard. In it were cigar tins labelled Insurance, Holiday and Electric, with a sum of money in each (Cash makes surprise comeback amid 4.6% annual rise in ATM withdrawals, 7 January).
Mike Morris. London. Besides being the basis of many languages, a knowledge of Latin, plus ancient Greek (Letters, 8 January), is at the root of solving Guardian crosswords – just look at the aliases of past and present setters: Araucaria, Arachne, Audreus and Auster – and that’s just those beginning with an A.
Tom Stubbs. Surbiton, London. Sally Smith’s mother missed a trick with her pink rabbit birthday treat made out of strawberry jelly with evaporated milk (Letters, 7 January). My witty mam did the chopped-jelly grass like hers, but would sprinkle currant “droppings” at its backside.
Julia Phillips. Combe Down, Somerset. Rafael Behr, in his excellent piece (Opinion, 8 January), says that the Tory party must find a serious leader. Why must they? I am rather enjoying the seemingly endless conveyor belt of chancers and buffoons that have been in charge.
Rod Price. Mollington, Oxfordshire. Re factchecking being ditched by Facebook (Report, 7 January): Comment is free … but facts scare them (with apologies to CP Scott). Austen Lynch. Garstang, Lancashire. Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
