I had written a letter to say I had a wild primrose flowering in my garden and is it the first?

Before I could post it, I read the letters (January 9 and 10) about primroses in November and daffodils on Christmas Eve and knew mine was not the first. I will switch to snowballs instead.

I am sure I read a letter from a headteacher saying he had instructed his pupils to ask each other if they objected to having a snowball thrown at them.

What a very sad statement. Probably somebody, somewhere, has been injured by a snowball - but a rare accident, I would imagine.

You might agree to have a game of conkers but a snowball fight is usually spontaneous.

-Margaret Julyan, Bruce Close, Haywards Heath