Typewriter reveals unexpected genius | Health & wellbeing

Bob Brody, you may not have reached great heights as a novelist yet, but your genius as an inventor should guarantee your immortality (“Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun”: What I learned from 50 years of rejection, October 8). The illustration published with your article shows you at work on your typewriter, which appears to take shredded paper and convert it into A4 paper as you type. Genius.
Christmas Chidwick
Edinburgh

I enjoyed Bob Brody’s article about learning to live with rejection, but I don’t expect this letter to be published.
Camp Lindsay
Bristol

Following the correspondence about leftovers (Letters, October 7), a few years ago I watched a dessert cooking show with my mother-in-law. When the host suggested she use a stale sponge cake as a base, she exclaimed: “Delighted? I didn’t even know it was cold!” It’s now family folklore.
Margaret Clarke
Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

Regarding your article (Two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and visits to the GP, October 5), as the adage goes, “movement is lotion, rest is rust.”
Joanna Rimmer
Newcastle upon Tyne

Is the misspelling of “British” on the chocolate bars handed out at the Conservative party conference an example of a failure in the use of AI (the Conservatives set the bar low after misspelling “British” on the conference chocolate on October 6)?
Barry Coomber
Pinner, London