An unwelcome sign of spring in the air | Barbecue

Your editorial on adult education (21 March) rekindled memories of teaching evening classes as a lecturer for many years. It was a sheer joy to teach those students; we tended to learn from each other. A few of my ex-students became lecturers themselves.
Dr Khosro S Jahdi
London

Having been smoked all winter by neighbours’ woodburning stoves and bonfires, could I make a spring plea for weather forecasters to stop referring to “barbecue weather”? Thanks to neighbours’ barbecues, the atmosphere occasionally resembles that of a burning oil dump. There’s enough threat in the air we breathe without adding to it.
Mike Peart
Sheffield

Reading the correspondence on the climate emergency (Letters, 25 March), I couldn’t help thinking the name of Cop26 should be changed to Copout26.
Jennifer Jenkins
London

After watching extensive coverage of the Ever Given (Report, 26 March) I am amazed that there is still no sign of a growing group of elderly men gathering on the bank shouting advice such as “put it into reverse” and “cut your revs down”.
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett, Llangollen canal