I recently had a bicycle accident that resulted in a broken leg. My partner prepared a “laid-up” job for me: to sort through a huge pile of Guardian Feast magazines – with scrapbook, glue and scissors – that I, as a keen cook, had set aside over the last three years. Imagine my joy as I sat on the sofa to begin this herculean task to receive details of the new Guardian Feast app. I’m now signed up for the free trial; Feasts suitably recycled. Thank you, Guardian.
Phil Webster
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
• “Micro-services” are not a new idea (‘Really good, not too long’: Swansea churchgoers praise first ‘micro-service’, 23 April). In the 1960s, a popular Catholic priest in Birkenhead was able to conclude a Sunday Latin mass with holy communion and a sermon in just 30 minutes, instead of the normal 60. We called him half-hour Harry.
Stephen Percy
Easton, Hampshire
• In your Q&A with Michelle Collins (27 April), she asks for more than three words to describe herself: “creative, kind, a grafter, engaging, loyal, fun and generous”. She forgot “modest”.
John Lovelock
Bristol
• Further to Peter Walker’s letter on Wimbledon’s role in the slave trade (23 April), there is a plaque in Wimbledon to a former resident who was instrumental in bringing the slave trade to an end – one William Wilberforce.
Clive Whichelow
London
• Where are all the nine-letter words beginning with S, asks Philip Stenning (Letters, 25 April). Sabotaged or submerged perhaps.
Pete Dorey
Bath, Somerset
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