Hardy perennial

SIR – My packet of cornflour (Letters, November 18) is dated July 1996. I use about a teaspoon a year and it still works perfectly.

Julia Malone

Haslemere, Surrey

SIR – I am delighted to hear that cornflour can be used to crispen laundry (Letters, November 18), but I no longer use cloth napkins and I’ve stopped ironing. Clearly I’m beyond social redemption. Wendy Strathdee Burnham, Buckinghamshire