To add to Lynne Reid Banks’ list of the joys of old age (Opinion, 27 January): having no more periods, being stood up for on buses and trains, not worrying about one’s appearance, being free to follow interests there has been no time for before and maybe being a little wiser or at least more experienced than when young! So many more…
Alison Watson
London
• My greatest fear of doing anything worthy of a national headline is the description “pensioner” (Charges dropped against pensioners arrested in ‘dawn raid’, 27 January). What’s wrong with “retired university professor and retired teacher”, or “women”, or even “activists”? Please stop marginalising us – we get enough of that in the tabloids.
Gill Butler
London
• In view of the problems caused by the “compulsory” wearing of high heels for work (Letters, 27 January), where does the Guardian’s Body fitness supplement (28 January) stand, with its cover picture of two males in sensible trainers and a female in four-inch heels?
Duncan Grimmond
Harrogate
• It is, I believe, only in Liverpool that a large supermarket chain is known as “the Asda” (Letters, 28 January). And recently in “the Asda” I heard another customer refer to “popping over to ‘the Aldi’”.
Jo Gibson
Liverpool
• As a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics in the early 1980s I was told off by my tutor for saying “the LSE” – it should always be “LSE”, he insisted.
Cyril Kavanagh
Kingston upon Thames
• When I was about 10, Weetabix (Letters, 28 January) had a competition for recipes using their product. I found a recipe from a different cereal, substituted Weetabix in my entry, and won a jug.
John Richards
Oxford
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