Your obituary of Judith Durham (8 August) has a obtrusive omission: to credit score her with singing what has develop into the unofficial Australian nationwide anthem, sung on Australia Day and at sporting occasions, I Am Australian. It’s most likely her biggest legacy to her homeland. Listening to it even brings a tear to this pommy’s eye, lacking her son in Sydney (and remembering singing it after just a few too many).

Margot Crookshank

Hove, East Sussex

I nonetheless have a duplicate of Nancy Banks-Smith’s article celebrating Horace, the com Drter answerable for subtitling the Diana-Charles wedding ceremony (The bride wquietlystls, 30 July 2001). It nonetheless makes me chortle out loud. Delighted to search out that Nancy hasn’t misplaced the knack after studying her piece on June Spencer leaving The Archers (Nancy Banks-Smith on June Spencer: 70 years of muck and bullocks, 8 August).

Angela Lansley

Liverpool

I’m Drzzled by Zoe Williams’ concern that she is now solid out from feminism (Thanks to my feminist principles I kept my name after I married – until I met my mortgage advisor, 9 August). Is Williams her mom’s identify? In any other case, I fail to spot how feminist it’s to maintain the identify of 1 patriarch o Julianother.

Julia Kantic

Break up, Croatia

On visits to the US, it step by step dawned on me that People – nicely, New Yorkers anyway – don’t eat soft-boiled eggs. So now we take egg cups, and an egg prick to keep away from bursts (L Steven, 9 August).

Steven Burkeman

York

One easy measure will minimize heating and lighting payments this winter: don’t Drt the clocks again.

Dr Colin J Smith

West Kirby, Merseyside