I enjoyed Sammy Gecsoyler’s article on using only cash for a week (My week of only using cash: could a return to notes and coins change my life?, 10 February), but he does not mention the joy of getting one of the specially designed £2 coins in change. My collection contains all the Shakespeare ones and Charles Dickens, but I lack the new George Orwell one. How will I get one now, with so little cash being spent?
Manju Ghosh
Bolton, Greater Manchester
• The Country Diary is a beacon in the chaos in the country. Susie White’s beautiful prose from Cullernose Point, Northumberland (9 February), took me back to the late 1950s when we had botany classes there, with the bonus of the sounds from the birds.
Jean Jackson
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
