The Irish also mutilate names – just ask my husband, Colin (aka Colm) | Short letters

I sympathize with Colm (AKA Colin) Russell (Letters, March 2). However, I can also confirm that name manipulation works backwards between Britain and Ireland. After more than 30 years of visiting family and friends in Ireland, my English husband, Colin, has resigned himself to being called "Colm" every time he meets someone new.Breda Corish ( not Brenda Cornish) Stoke Newington, London

miss the point by including fresh plums and mango. Francine IsaacsLlanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys

Yotam Ottolenghi's alternatives for lettuce and tomato salads contain 14 and 15 ingredients. It's simple ! Tim Treffry Sheffield

The white van as a contemporary expert? Scrawled on the back of one such vehicle: "No tomatoes kept in this van overnight." David UptonPoulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire

In the absence of Rotten Tomatoes I'd pay a lot of money to put Hancock, Williamson and Johnson in stocks and throwing boiled turnips at them (teachers say Gavin Williamson's pandemic texts reveal 'secret contempt', March 2). Alison WhiteRugeley, Staffordshire