Bob Brody, you may not have achieved great heights as a writer yet, but your genius as an inventor should guarantee your immortality (“Stay True to Yourself and Fly Closer to the Sun”: What I Learned from 50 Years of Rejection, October 8). The illustration published in your article shows you working on a typewriter, which apparently takes shredded paper and converts it into A4 paper as you type. Genius.
Noel is interested
Edinburgh
I liked Bob Brody's article about learning to live with rejection, but I don't expect this letter to be published.
Lindsey Camp
Bristol
In addition to correspondence about balances (Letters, October 7), a few years ago I watched a program about making desserts with my mother-in-law. When the presenter suggested using a stale sponge cake as a base, she exclaimed: “Stale? I didn’t even know it was cold!” This is now family folklore.
Margaret Clark
Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia
I will re-read your article(Two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and a visit to the GP, 5 October), as the proverb says: “Movement is lotion, rest is rust.”
Joanna Rimmer
Newcastle upon Tyne
Was the misspelling of the name “Britain” as “British” on the chocolate bars handed out at the Conservative Party conference an example of failure to use IA (Tories set the bar low after misspelling Britain at Chocolate Conference, October 6)?
Barry Coomber
Pinner, London
