Those getting rather cocky about their ability to stand on one leg (Letters, 26 June) should try doing the exercise with their eyes closed. This will bring them back down to earth much more quickly than they expected.
Ron Brewer
Old Buckenham, Norfolk
• I am 93 and cannot stand on one leg. I can, however, touch my toes with (almost) straight legs. How much longer do I have?
Joyce Bailey
Saffron Walden, Essex
• The Country Diary (23 June) does it again. Raises our spirits when all seems doom and gloom. The news is of the erosion of our human rights, Labour failing to bring us hope, war, poverty and the climate crisis, but insects are not wiped out yet. I saw no bees on my broad bean flowers, but some insect life must have found them for there are the pods ready to be picked now. I’m hoping some butterflies will find my buddleia bush planted in optimism.
Barbara Foster
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
• A case can be made for claiming that the ancient north Pembrokeshire game of cnapan is the forerunner of modern rugby union (Letters, 22 June). George Owen, in The Description of Penbrokeshire in 1603, describes the passing or throwing of a pig’s bladder or small wooden ball from one player to another, with some evidence of scrummaging.
John M Jenkins
Bow Street, Ceredigion
• Talking of cubists (Letters, 24 June), let us hope that this country’s blue period will soon be over.
Adrian Brodkin
London
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