Puggled, scumfished or utterly shrammed
- The term “puthered” was shared to describe feeling overheated, while “shrammed” was used in Hampshire childhoods to describe being very cold, though these words may now be obsolete.
- Regional expressions for weather-related discomfort include “scumfished” in County Durham and “fair puggled” in north-east Scotland.
- Jonathan Jones’s review of the Constable exhibition at Ipswich received high praise for its poetic quality, deeply moving one reader.
- Readers humorously commented on a Labrador reportedly getting high after eating discarded cannabis, with playful remarks about the dog's experience.
It was interesting to learn of the word “puthered” to describe the feeling of being overheated (Letters, 9 July). It reminded me that in the pre-climate-crisis winters of my late 50s/early 60s Hampshire childhood, we had a word for the opposite experience. My parents would often come in from the cold claiming to be “shrammed”. Is the word now redundant as well as obsolete?Claire WhatleyBerwick St James, Wiltshire
In County Durham they are “scumfished” by this hot weather.Jan DavinsonBeetham, Cumbria
In north-east Scotland people would say: “I’m fair puggled.”Ian ArnottPeterborough
Jonathan Jones gives the Constable exhibition at Ipswich five stars (The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age, 10 July). I would do the same for his review. A perfect, ekphrastic prose-poem in its own right. I read the last line and burst into tears.Ben Entwistle Crewe, Cheshire
In the 1960s, in a report of a football match in the Times, I was described as “diminutive but nippy” (Letters, 12 July). Not so nippy now, but maybe more dim.Alan GreenLondon
So, how high can a labrador get (Labrador rescued after ‘eating discarded cannabis’ on Ben Nevis hike, 12 July)?Bernard TaylorBillingham, County Durham
Did the cannabis-eating dog order a pizza when it came round?Tony MitchellWorsley, Greater Manchester
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