A flesh and blood matter for the Church of England | Brief letters

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Re your article (

Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine, 9 Februar

y), if you can believe wheat and alcohol are flesh and blood, I’m sure you could cope with an oatcake and a slug of grape juice being bread and wine.

Henry Malt


Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

• The government seems to dub everyone who opposes a development for whatever reason a nimby (

More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones, 8 February

). Should we now refer to Starmer, Reeves, Rayner and housebuilders as badees – Build Anywhere Despite the Environmental Effects?

Tim Edmundson


London

• Janet Mansfield may well do “the washing” rather than “the laundry” (

Letters, 7 February

), but I’m fairly sure a laundry basket is involved.

Michael Robinson


Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

• My A-level English teacher reported that I had no gift for words (

Letters, 10 February

). When I met her after my first two books had been published, she said they were “only” crime novels.

Judith Cutler


Cirencester

• On my prowess in one of my least favourite subjects, my history teacher gave me a glowing report. The headmaster added his own comment: “He must be thinking of the wrong boy.” Ouch!

Andrew Ockwell


Chichester

• When my national service ended, my report read: “He has never adapted his ways to that of the army and has remained adamantly civilian.”

Terence Padden


Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester

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