02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Timmy Mallett's a joy to follow online
After reading your article (This livestream of baby bald eagles is the only thing keeping me sane, 27 May), I thought I'd share my recent rediscovery of Timmy Mallett. I found his bubbly personality a bit much for a Saturday morning as a child, but his posts on Facebook and other platforms about his cycle tour of Ireland are a brilliant break from the online doom and MaddisonMoy, County Galway, Ireland
Jane Tranter says 'an audience will not be able to take their eyes off these strange curls or weird hats' ('Not everybody spoke posh' in Jane Austen's era, says top producer, 27 May). Audiences routinely cope with talking animals, space aliens and even men with the head of an ass. We can cope with a NicolOrmiston, East Lothian
How wonderful to read about the new V&A East Storehouse (28 May) – another 'national' museum in London, sucking up £65m of funding when dozens of museums outside the capital are facing extinction due to lack of it. Norman MillerBrighton
Please inform Paul, my favourite crossword setter, that there is no reason why Quakers should not drink alcohol (Cryptic crossword, 30 May), and some of us do – in moderation, of course!Frank CosgrovePresteigne, Powys
Euan Dunn disputes a crossword clue, 'Fuzzy green foodstuff – that flies!', that had the solution 'Kiwi' (Letters, 28 May). Has he never heard that fruit flies like a kiwi? Bill McGinleyChester
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