It was interesting to learn of the word “puthered” to describe the feeling of being overheated (Letters, 9 July). It reminded me that in the pre-climate-crisis winters of my late 50s/early 60s Hampshire childhood, we had a word for the opposite experience. My parents would often come in from the cold claiming to be “shrammed”. Is the word now redundant as well as obsolete?
Claire Whatley
Berwick St James, Wiltshire
• In County Durham they are “scumfished” by this hot weather.
Jan Davinson
Beetham, Cumbria
• In north-east Scotland people would say: “I’m fair puggled.”
Ian Arnott
Peterborough
• Jonathan Jones gives the Constable exhibition at Ipswich five stars (The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age, 10 July). I would do the same for his review. A perfect, ekphrastic prose-poem in its own right. I read the last line and burst into tears.
Ben Entwistle
Crewe, Cheshire
• In the 1960s, in a report of a football match in the Times, I was described as “diminutive but nippy” (Letters, 12 July). Not so nippy now, but maybe more dim.
Alan Green
London
• So, how high can a labrador get (Labrador rescued after ‘eating discarded cannabis’ on Ben Nevis hike, 12 July)?
Bernard Taylor
Billingham, County Durham
• Did the cannabis-eating dog order a pizza when it came round?
Tony Mitchell
Worsley, Greater Manchester
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