Weekend readers' pictures: Comfort

Lucy Atkins: “Sometimes, comfort can be found in the ­unlikeliest of places” Photograph: Lucy Atkins

Caroline Wooster: “This child in Ladakh, India, was comfortably ­ensconced while his mother was busy helping with the big job of white­washing a Buddhist monastery” Photograph: Caroline Wooster

Louis Joines: “In New York, I visited Magnolia ­Bakery – ­perfect comfort food” Photograph: Louis Joines

Mike Waldron: “Our Jack Russell, Wolfie, is a real ­terrier but also a real comfort-seeker. He looked up at the ­camera as if to say, ‘I’m supremely comfortable – you’re not going to move me, are you?’” Photograph: Mike Waldron

Sheila Hull: "I was on holiday in Madeira and I looked over the balcony from our hotel room and saw this lady in the pool" Photograph: Sheila Hull

Bill Reeds: "All this gibbon at Chester Zoo needed for total comfort was a fork in a tree to spread out in. I'd never seen such a smug monkey before" Photograph: Bill Reeds

Geoff Kent: "The perfect way to spend a comfortable autumnal afternoon in Kew Gardens...if you are a duck that is" Photograph: Geoff Kent

Nick Deaves: "I came across this sofa left on a footpath (a very comfortably place in the Autumn subshine). After I took some pictures I took a closer look and I could see a mobile phone stuffed down the side, as I looked at it, it started to ring. Very freaky!" Photograph: Nick Deaves

Virginia Schroder: "Smoock settled down on the deckchair as soon as I got out it. He always finds the most comfortable place to be" Photograph: Virginia Schroder

Tim Johnston: "These pigs were all snuggled up to each other for extra warmth as it was a chilly morning in the Bernese Oberland" Photograph: Tim Johnston