Re Emma Beddington’s article (Is commuting good for you? I miss the break between work and home, 13 February), if you work from home, find a nice local with a good bunch of early-doors regulars and spend the time you would have spent commuting in there having a pint and a laugh. As well as saving money on commuting, you’ll be supporting the pub, and I guarantee that you’ll go home happier, work forgotten.
Michael Fuller
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
• Sean Wood (Country diary, 13 February) raises his hip flask of malt whisky to a rarely seen pine marten and says to himself: “In the style of Robert Burns … ‘It’s a braw bricht moonlit nicht the nicht’.” He appears to have confused his Scottish bards: “It’s a braw bricht moonlit nicht” is a line from A Wee Deoch-an-Doris, a song co-written and sung by the inimitable Sir Harry Lauder about a century ago.
Mike Pender
Cardiff
