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Lame ducks | Tamarind seed art | Punishment haircuts | On further reflection | Car parking experience

I couldn’t help seeing a strong parallel last week between two demoralised sets of lame ducks. There’s the England cricket team, facing near certain elimination from the World Cup, bereft of ideas and positivity, and wishing they could just get on a return flight (England’s inflexible tactics meant they went hard and now they will go home, 27 October). Then there is the Tory party, facing almost certain banishment from power, and wishing they didn’t have to go through the motions of pretending to be a government for the next 14 months, and that it could all just end now.
Robin Spencer
Reigate, Surrey

• Re your article (Seeds of potential: the Caribbean women reviving a dying art, 28 October), I saw some of these beautiful works, created from seeds, for sale in the shop at the Garden Museum, just by Lambeth Palace in London. Maybe if more people bought them, this would not be a dying art.
Emma Tait
London

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