Interesting that Erwin Olaf (My best shot, 6 November) should recognise that there might be different ways of interpreting a picture. An alternative view of his best shot is that it encapsulates hackneyed and offensive stereotypes of female sexuality, ridiculing age and fetishising youth. The war to which he refers is a construct predicated upon the nature of the male gaze rather than women’s intergenerational relationships.
Pattie Friend
Isleworth, Middlesex
• Anyone unable to travel to Dorset to visit Slepe Heath (The return of the native heathland, 6 November) can get a good idea of the place by listening to Gustav Holst’s orchestral masterpiece Egdon Heath, a wonderfully evocative piece of music.
Michael Short
St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
• I share Alan Greenslade-Hibbert’s unease at the sexist distinction between men’s and ladies’ jackets in the Guardian ad (Letters, 8 November). But that’s not the reason why I cannot order one. While we are still in the bonfire season, whether for Guy Fawkes or for Samhain (Letters, 6 November), I can’t buy a wax jacket in case it melts in the heat. I’ll stick to my waxed garment until this is resolved.
Judith Eversley
Bath
• The wittiest slogan I’ve seen was on the back of a T-shirt worn by a man at a model railway exhibition (Letters, 8 November): “If you can read this I’ve left my anorak on the platform.”
Heather Parry
Watford, Hertfordshire
• One of the amazing murmuration shapes captured in Eyewitness (7 November) looked very like a whale, right down to its perfect tail. Probably just a fluke.
Ryan Arnold (12)
Sheffield
