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AS a Land Girl during the Second World War, my aunt Catherine was stationed on a grand estate where peacocks lived (‘The pride of the peacock’, June 7). Disapproving of them being fed precious wartime grain, she would snaffle their eggs and eat them for breakfast. She lived to be 101.

Oliver Hawkins, West Sussex

The writer of the letter of the week will win a bottle of Pol Roger Brut Réserve Champagne

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