A tapestry showing the last French invasion of Britain is on display at Fishguard (Letters, 26 October). In my family, the story goes that the Harries ladies scared off the invaders by displaying their red petticoats. The French mistook them for soldiers dressed in red. The tapestry shows this happening at the Harries house of Tregwynt.
Meryl Harries
Dawlish, Devon
• Please can we have fewer photos of people walking along sea walls and promenades during storms, such as the one published with your story about Storm Austen and Storm Boelo in the print edition (Storm Boelo leaves 82,000 properties with no electricity, 26 October). This risky behaviour is as antisocial and reckless as dropping litter, parking badly or playing loud music in public.
Toby Wood
Peterborough
• Still inventing at 97, Cyril Hilsum was clearly a remarkable man. Your obituary (15 October) says: “He ascribed his longevity to red wine and chocolate, and was a lifelong reader of the Guardian.” He gives encouragement and hope to those of us who follow his example.
Michael Sanderson
Elsecar, South Yorkshire
• What bigger prize might Kevin Ward have won (Letters, 27 October) if he’d again found two nine-letter solutions (“momentary” and “manometry”) to Monday’s Word Wheel, after his “intricate” and “triactine” last week?
Peter Kaan
Exeter, Devon
• If you think mumsy is demeaning and patronising, just wait till you are a grandmother (Don’t call me ‘mumsy’ – the contempt behind that word makes me livid, 25 October)!
“Granny Annie” Tunnicliffe
London
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