Forget cooking – pass the bread and eggs | Brief letters

Meals for married life | Exotic animals | Far-right governments | Fiscal rectitude | Trickle-down cash | Wheelbarrow money

Re Emma Beddington (After 25 years of feeding other people I’ve had enough of cooking – from now on it is toast in front of the telly, 25 September), our children left home years ago, and after 63 years of marriage we quite happily have an evening meal of a boiled egg, homemade bread, blueberries (frozen, defrosted) and yoghurt. We do have a choice of meals in the freezer for other days.
Helen Evans
Ruthin, Denbighshire

• The multiple choice answers in your print-edition feature Pet Corner (G2, 26 October) were tigers, elephants, coyotes and crocodiles. None of these have yet been domesticated here in the north-west. Might it be time to consider a new format? Politicians’ Corner might be fun.
John Cockell
Congleton, Cheshire

• Some countries, such as Italy (Report, 26 September), have to hold elections to get a far-right government. We get one without the bother of such a procedure.
Elizabeth Pearson
New Barnet, London

• Use of “faecal event” (Letters, 26 September) to describe the UK budget reminded me of when some wag in the Irish parliament referred to the latest fiscal proposals as “rectal fiscitude”.
Colleen OSullivan
Cork, Ireland

• How much of the cash that currency speculators have made helping to sink the pound in recent days will trickle down into the economy?
Richard Jacques
Barcelona, Spain

• We are better prepared than most for the ever-rising rate of inflation: we are a two-wheelbarrow family.
David Marcer
Maisemore, Gloucestershire

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