Peter Hendy, London transport commissioner, is evidently unconcerned about the Olympics (Report, 31 January), and dismisses the travel fears of Londoners as "dinner party … grumbles". Wondering what dynamic coping strategy Mr Hendy has planned, the reader finds out: he is going to "tell people to avoid central London" at busy times. If they can't? He will suggest that they "might like to 'have a beer'". With such a Panglossian view, it is no wonder he can "sleep fine at night".
Theo Savvas
London
• The writer Saki (HH Munro) wrote an essay, Birds on the Western Front, in which he described a growing barn owl population hunting mice from the trenches, chaffinches being raked with machine-gun fire, and a skylark's song (Letters, 2 February). Once, "having occasion to throw myself downwards with some abruptness" he found himself face to face with a nest of young larks.
Mary Steele
Dunstable, Bedfordshire
• If Di Oliver (Letters, 3 February) had gone to her local farmers' market, she could have bought, like me, a pheasant for £4. That will form the basis of three meals: one, using the Guardian recipe for pot-roast legs; two, roasting the rest; and three, making soup from the carcass.
Stephen Mullin
London
• David Harding-Price need not worry about ordering his Wagner DVD (Letters, 3 February). He was rubbish on the X Factor so there will be plenty left.
John Collins
Swansea