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What evil plots is the snow hatching? | Brief letters

Snow in the Brecon Beacons national park in Wales on Monday
Snow in the Brecon Beacons national park in Wales on Monday. Photograph: Drew Buckley/Rex/Shutterstock

The special light in St Ives is not a media illusion (Letters, 15 December). The town is situated on a promontory with wide beaches on three sides. They are made of quartz-based sand, which reflects light particularly brilliantly, and which is found where granite rock has eroded. Such beaches are found elsewhere, for instance in Cornwall and parts of Scotland. Some of the Scottish colourists may have been familiar with similar beaches: perhaps an art expert could provide further illumination on this?
Dr Jacqui Stewart
Exeter

• I am impressed that Antoinette Sandbach MP feels she has to do the “right thing from time to time” (Dominic Grieve receives death threats after leading Tory rebellion, 15 December), making it clear what she thinks she is doing the rest of the time.
Ken Baldry
London

• John Haigh’s suggestion (Letters, 14 December) that Charles use the Latin fidei defensor has the added advantage that it was the original title (as bestowed by the pope).
Richard Watson
Cardiff

• While Mike Farley (Letters, 14 December) is heartened to know that temperatures care about us when they “struggle” to rise and keep us warm, I am less sanguine. Clouds “organise” to come between us and the sun and apparently last week in Scotland they were even “ganging up” on us. I wonder what evil plots the snow is hatching.
Rosemary Chamberlin
Bristol

• I feel quite sad when the shipping forecast tells me that a cold front is “losing its identity”.
Ruth Eversley
Paulton, Somerset

• I am not taking lectures on overpopulation from a bloke called Roger Plenty (Letters, 14 December).
Duncan Grant
London

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