I sat reading Zoe Williams’s article (If I give away a kidney, will it make me a better person?, 18 March) on the day I received my second blood test result in a week because I have chronic kidney disease and they are failing fast. Will donation make someone a better person? Only the donor can answer that, but it will certainly make the recipient a better, healthier and very appreciative person. At the very least, please carry a donor card.
Helena Taylor
Halesowen, West Midlands
Shortly after I was wheeled into the cardiac operating theatre for an emergency angioplasty, the reassuring Keith Richards riff in the Rolling Stones’ Start Me Up began to ring out (Letters, 20 March). I’ve enjoyed playing it on guitar ever since.
Warren Kovach
Pentraeth, Anglesey
I replied, “Anything classical” to the question asking what music I would like to hear during my angioplasty. Following hurried discussion, I had to endure two hours of Simon and Garfunkel on repeat.
Bob Epton
Brigg, Lincolnshire
For once in a decade your financial editor has slipped up. Ice-cream is emphatically not a “seasonal product” in this household (Schumacher’s plan to offload Unilever’s ice-creams has a very familiar flavour, 19 March).
Prof Dominic Regan
Bath
Your article on sourdough v the rest (Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class, 20 March) was interesting. However, I have to say that white bread, with its spongy texture, makes the very best eggy bread. Grandchildren agree.
Christine Walters
Buxton, Derbyshire
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