'Death cleaning' can unearth treasures | Brief letters

A year on from my husband’s death, I am actually beginning to enjoy what one letter writer calls the “gentle art of death cleaning” (Letters, 8 April). I have been finding treasure. Today was two tins of old coins, a sheaf of ancient foreign currency notes, a collection of old cameras, a few pipes, and an old AA car plate. All are being carefully kept for my daughters and grandsons.
Susan Treagus
Manchester

I’m grateful for the advice from the “leading UK experts” about how much food I should stash away in the event of a doomsday scenario (Oats, sardines and crisps: emergency foods to stockpile – and why you should share them, 4 April). I have two follow-up questions: how many toilet rolls is the subsequent diet likely to require, and where on earth I am supposed to put it all while I wait?
Anne Cowper
Bishopston, Swansea

An envelope from HM Revenue and Customs stated that it is “Your tax service – here to support”. The letter inside said that I had received a winter fuel payment to which I wasn’t entitled, so they were going to claw it back. Some support.
Geoff Holman
Knutsford, Cheshire

I had previously thought that the reputed American inability to understand irony was a myth. Not now (JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference’ as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election, 7 April).
Alan Pearson
Broadbottom, Greater Manchester

I dream of having a name that someone asks me to spell (Letters, 8 April).
Mary Smith (nee Jones)
Bearsted, Kent