The answer to the ‘egg prick’ question | Brief letters

Egg prickers | Anger management | Dario Fo play | Missing Keir Starmer

Stephen Walkley (Letters, 11 August) asks what an egg prick" is, after I mentioned it in a letter. An unkind friend suggested, when my letter appeared, that it's someone who writes letters to the Guardian about eggs. In fact, it's a gadget that makes a tiny hole in an eggshell, thereby preventing the shell from breaking while the egg is being boiled. I now see that it's marketed as an egg pricker", which is probably a safer name for it.
Steven Burkeman
York

Another way of dealing with the anger many of us are feeling (Letters, 11 August) is to read Michael Rosen's I Am Angry as many times as necessary. Once calmed, we can either go to bed (as the no-longer-irate kitten does) or find better ways of dealing with the root causes than kicking inanimate objects.
Ruth Eversley
Paulton, Somerset