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I doubt if the Florida judge's remedy for repairing a marriage by telling the man to take his wife bowling would work in the apparently tranquil setting of English lawn bowls (In praise of … , 13 February). At Chipping Norton Bowls Club there used to be an annual married couples competition which always attracted a large number of spectators. They came to enjoy the spectacle of husbands and wives with long years of happily married bliss behind them angrily falling out over a short bowl or a wrong bias.
David Eddershaw
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• Re Ann Kirpalani's letter (Letters, 13 February), my great-great grandfather, AP Saunders (1801-78), was a friend of Gladstone. Mrs Gladstone confided that when her husband was at late-night sittings, she would take a hot-water bottle full of tea with her to bed, so that he could have a warm drink without a servant having to wait up. (In those days hot-water bottles were stoneware, not rubber.)
Brigid Peppin
Castle Cary, Somerset
• A perfect "brick", a perfect "day", and that "kat" nowhere in sight … George Herriman back in 1916 was satirising the excessive use of quotation marks in his Krazy Kat comic strip (Don't 'quote' me on that, G2, 13 February). His use of them on the most innocuous words adds to the surreal character of his text.
Roger Musson
Edinburgh
• Beleagured Heart of Midlothian fans (In praise of …, 8 February) may take comfort from the fact that there's someone even worse off: as per last season, Tunstall Town are once again propping up the Staffordshire Senior League having lost all 20 of their games so far, scoring nine goals while conceding 162.
Graham Larkbey
London
• Today's Sun had "165 days to go" on the front cover (Editorial, 13 February), so Murdoch's told them then.
David Hinton
Bournemouth, Dorset
• Did Angus Peter Campbell (The shame of the Campbells, G2, 13 February) give us the whole story of his clan's history or just the condensed version?
Alistair Richardson
Stirling
