Someone asks for help with ideas to use up 50kg of marrows, and the suggestion given is a cake requiring 15 other ingredients, plus several hours’ combined preparation and cooking, which would leave about 49.7kg of marrows to use on something else (How to turn a marrow glut into a glorious cake – recipe, 20 August). I use an unexpected glut of marrows for a marrow stock. Boil it, blitz it, freeze it – makes tasty soup stock for use all winter long.
Dagnija Innus
Penryn, Cornwall
• Every year this newspaper publishes photographs of ecstatic pupils, usually girls, their mouths covered in disbelief, holding their letters showing straight A passes in their exams. It would make a refreshing change to see somebody who had failed, tearing their letter into little pieces and stamping it into the ground.
David Godfrey
Eastbourne, East Sussex
