Unsexy porridge, an Eton mess and the return of the farthing

Oaterly appalledI have bought Scott’s Porage Oats for many years, not only because of the quality but because of the hunky Scotsman on the front of the box. In my local Waitrose today I was dismayed to see its rebrand: gone is the alpha male with the sexy nugget smile, replaced by a strange millennial with no pecs, who looks as though he is holding an invisible selfie stick. I am outraged.Johanna Seccombe London SW19

All write by meHaving had more than 300 short stories published in women’s magazines, I gather Jeanette Winterson includes my work in her snobbish phrase “wimmins fiction of the worst kind” (News, last week). I console myself by thinking that if, over the past awful year, I

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