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I always regard the house prices in your fantasy house hunt feature with wry amusement. After all, it is supposed to be fantasy. However, last weekend’s selection made my blood boil (Homes for sale to inspire artists in England – in pictures, 23 January). In 2024, the Guardian reported that the median income of visual artists had dropped to £12,500, a fall of 40% since 2010. Even the most creative accounting is not going to convert this into a mortgage for one of the houses featured.
Annie Harrison
Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire

• Rosie, aged 10, recounts how an app identified prints as those of coyotes (Young country diary, 24 January). Here in Cumbria, I recently came across a skull that I was pretty sure was that of a fox. To confirm it, I used Google Lens to identify it. Guess what, the answer was coyote.
William Wood (aged 83)
Maulds Meaburn, Cumbria