Timmy Mallett’s a joy to follow online | Brief letters

Antidote to doom and gloom | Old hat | Museum funding | Quakers and alcohol | Kiwi wordplayAfter reading your article (This livestream of baby bald eagles is the only thing keeping me sane, 27 May), I thought I’d share my recent rediscovery of Timmy Mallett. I found his bubbly personality a bit much for a Saturday morning as a child, but his posts on Facebook and other platforms about his cycle tour of Ireland are a brilliant break from the online doom and gloom.Ruth MaddisonMoy, County Galway, Ireland• Jane Tranter says “an audience will not be able to take their eyes off these strange curls or weird hats” (‘Not everybody spoke posh’ in Jane Austen’s era, says top producer, 27 May). Audiences routinely cope with talking animals, space aliens and even men with the head of an ass. We can cope with a hat.Kirsty NicolOrmiston, East Lothian Continue reading...

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