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15:43 UK time, Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Re: The perils of earning a £100,000 salary. I'll have it if they don't want it, as long as they keep doing the working bit though. I'm too busy for that right now.
Scott Smith

Regarding earning a £100,000 salary, I think Dickens got it right when Mr Micawber observed: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
Matthew Peter Wood

"... the Trading Standards Institute said many items ordered online have failed to arrive. ...There has been a four-fold rise in the number of fake goods seized at UK borders in the last 10 years." Any connection, perhaps?
Rob, London, UK

"Lost frogs found after decades" - and boy were they tired!
JennyT, NY Brit

What next? Water turned into wine by fermentation process?
Phil, Milton on the Keynes

Why did this story make me giggle?
Carol, Portugal

David Richerby (Tuesday's letters), it could be worse: In Denmark there is a peak (once thought to be the country's highest point) called 'Himmelbjerget' which translates to Heaven Mountain or Sky Mountain. It is 147m above sea level.
Ray, Turku, Finland

Leib & Eric (Tuesday's letters) - everyone I know calls it Pry-mark - could it be a regional thing? I don't think I'm that posh.
Catherine, Hitchin, UK

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