Pottering around on homemade besoms | Brief letters

Cathedral attendances | Light in St Ives | Harry Potter gifts | 24 Hours from Tulse HillIn his defence of the UK’s state religion (Letters, 14 December), the bishop of Bedford was keen to point out that the National Secular Society’s 7,000-10,000 members would fill two or three of the Church of England’s 42 cathedrals. He should be so lucky. The C of E’s own statistics say those 42 cathedrals get 37,000 people attending services a week – that’s an average of u