Got hiccups? Try Picasso’s sharp cure | Letters

At 90, I walk my lurcher twice a day (1.5 miles minimum), do the cryptic crossword (93% success this year), take more than two services a month at Methodist churches, preach once a month in my parish church, and am looking forward to the annual Wainwright challenge (climbing 2,176ft Tarn Crag) and the reopening of our village youth club (Letters, 21 June). My God is being good to me!
Rev George Greenhough
Camblesforth, North Yorkshire

In 1954, Picasso taught me an infallible cure for hiccups (Report, 18 June). With your right hand, grip a (preferably rusty) knife, knuckles turned inwards. In your left hand hold a tumbler half full of water. Carefully place the knife into the glass and, raising both elbows as high as possible, sip the water slowly. No more hiccups.
Tobias Jellinek
East Twickenham, London

Exports of British dairy products to the EU down by 90%, cheese down by two-thirds, chocolate by 37% and so on (Report, 18 June). Wasn’t that the kind of “project fear” nonsense the shifty remainers were trying to terrify us with?
Dr Ron Glatter
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

The cashless society may well be close (Report, 16 June), but what will the tooth fairy do? More generally, how will children learn to appreciate the value of money if not by actually handling it?
Win Wood
Dalgety Bay, Fife

At my convent school we wore thick navy knickers (Letters, 21 June). Imagine our delight – and the frown of the nun teaching us – when we read in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan: “As if this earth in vast thick pants were breathing.” They were called “Kublas” after that.
Ros Napier
Birmingham