Regarding Adrian Chiles’s article (I twanged my achilles playing pickleball. Here’s what it taught me about tendons – and human nature, 12 March), now I am in my 70s, life does seem to be a succession of various aches and pains, which can be irksome to the spirit. Am I alone in feeling a little solace when hearing of others having similar afflictions?
Michael Fuller
Bedford
• A friend once thought a decades-old pullover of mine was new because she had not seen it before. Similarly, I suspect that the “new moons” orbiting Saturn are not new at all and that the planet has had the now known 274 moons for millions of years (Report, 11 March). Perhaps there are others still to be discovered by us earthlings?
James Fanning
Greifswald, Germany
• Not everyone appreciates art in the same way (Letters, 11 March). When I visited the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition in London a few years ago, two women were looking closely at his masterpiece Virgin of the Rocks when one of them turned to her friend and said: “Lovely frame, isn’t it?”
Dr Ben Timmis
Emsworth, Hampshire
• Perhaps we could persuade cinemas to follow the approach to ads that the broadcasting companies take with sport (Letters, 12 March). Tell us the actual time the matches start so we can avoid the pre-match chat and start watching when the action begins.
Ron Brewer
Norfolk
• As well as adding MPs to the cull of civil servants (Letters, 11 March), can we also add absent and non-contributing Lords?
Kim Loader
Whitby, North Yorkshire
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