It was beautiful to learn Sabrina Olson’s letter (6 March) on the quiz because it has been a household ritual for us for years. It stored us all linked by means of our kids’s time at college, then shifting into their very own properties, and in some instances working overseas. It stored us going by means of the enforced separation of Covid and have become a ceremony of passage for any new companions who joined our household group, particularly as our winner is anticipated to do a “inventive” dance of victory. Two beautiful daughters-in-law are now common quizzers.
Angela Barker
Rottingdean, East Sussex
I’ve discovered that chatbots are simply circumvented when, asking to state the drawback, I write or spout gibberish (The AI assistant was offering me any help I needed. All I wanted was a living, breathing human, 11 March). It appears to be the quickest method to be put involved with a human being.
Dr Peter Glanvill
Chard, Somerset
With reference to letters (11 March) relating to fascinating additions to the “normal checklist of measurements”, I’ve one other one. On a bath of garden weedkiller I just lately bought, the protection was given as “enough to cowl the measurement of about 8 automobile parking areas”.
Mike Robinson
Southampton
Could I add one from my Malaysian recipe e-book: “One khati of rice equals one cigarette tin of rice crammed to half an inch from the prime of the tin.”
Maggie Hamilton
Summertown, Oxford
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