I note with delight the site of those Hotbox saunas on the Causeway Coast in County Derry (Feel the heat: the Northern Irish beach that’s embracing Scandinavian sauna culture, 18 November). For just along that stretch of the coast is Magilligan Point, where my soldier husband used to spend his rest and recuperation time while on duty in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. No mod cons like saunas; nothing there then except the elements, peace and quiet, and good food. How times change. Deo gratias.
Marie Davis
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire
• Re your obituary of the Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov (19 November), I interviewed him after a performance in Edinburgh around 1980 and asked him his views on women conductors. He grimaced. “Women,” he said, “not strong enough.” It was a short interview.
Veronica Gordon Smith
Edinburgh
• Isn’t it time to drop the “formerly known as Twitter” postscript every time X is referred to in an article? If your well-informed readers haven’t yet appreciated the name change, the not-so-new rebranding of Twitter, currently known as X, has clearly failed.
Clive Frost
Tinos, Greece
• Some years ago, I visited a Devon tearoom to sample its “tea’s” and “coffee’s”. The proprietor admitted that he kept the apostrophes as they brought in the Guardian readers (Letters, 20 November).
David G Clark
Canterbury
• Re musical chairs, I always thought the point was to avoid being the last kid standing (The latest Google phone promises to transform my children into perfect, smiling angels. Why would I want that?, 19 November).
David Fowler
West Wickham, London
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