That’s the spirit

SIR – One of my fondest memories of crewing on a yacht is of sitting in the Crinan Canal basin on a sunny morning, having kippers and gin for breakfast (Letters, August 21).

Those were the days. Judith Barnes

St Ives, Cambridgeshire

SIR – After I had a kidney removed, my blood pressure sank during the night due to the morphine.

The doctor, hastily summoned by a nurse, told me to have a Guinness with my breakfast

It worked. I had one each day after. Dean Yorwerth

Stockport