Clock this delightful paean to dandelions | Brief letters

Country diary | Isfahan’s sights | Dilyn the dog’s fleas | Bald truths | Pate expectationsI concur with Val Kirby’s letter (18 April) about Jim Perrin’s prose “in praise of celandines” and her wish that he could turn his silver pen to extolling the virtues of the dandelion. I refer her to a Country Diary from 28 February 2012 by Paul Evans about the dandelion’s “ephemeral solar system”. It’s a paean to that much-maligned “astronom