I was so happy to see last week’s Experience, I Can’t Stop Sweating. I manage just fine with tops and shirts, but don’t think I’ve had dry hands in about 10 years. I used to take three changes of shirt to school and refuse to put up my hand for fear of the sweat marks. It’s a lot more manageable now, but as a teenager it did take over my life, so it’s lovely to see you highlight how real and agonising a problem this can be.
generally On theguardian.com
I’d love to know how many teachers are writing in this week saying, “This is exactly what I’m thinking!”. I had tears in my eyes by the end.
Sabine Janßen-Havercroft
York
If the tracking of pupils’ performance and teachers’ work is so intense, how come the bad, incompetent teachers aren’t weeded out? I have to put up with incredible levels of just plain ignorance from some of the teachers with whom my son is confronted. It’s like a celebration of mediocrity.
Juliette Oliver On theguardian.com
Would you care to define “edge”, as in Nantwich “could do with some edge”?
Ingrid Marsh
Ipplepen, Devon
As a retired woman in a backwater, it amuses me to search my wardrobe for the week’s All Ages theme, and wear something from it on Sunday lunchtime, be that green, denim, a white shirt or a sweater; I once even dug out an old, long dress to wear as a sleeveless coat, although my courage failed me that time. So what did you do with All Ages last week? And what shall I wear?
Jennifer Gale
Littleham, Devon
Tim Dowling has got the British understatement thing to such an extreme that I wonder if the British do not by now see him as an imposter. Like Bill Bryson, he has truly assimilated.
franhunny On theguardian.com
I do a “three strikes and you’re out” thing with friends. If a “toxic” episode hurts me, or affects me more than feels OK, I subconsciously notch it up. If there are three, I press delete. It’s very energising and feels like taking the contents of your attic to a boot fair. Life is too short to let toxic people close enough to hurt you. Once is a human error, twice needs honest feedback – but three times, goodbye.
geraldinemitchell On theguardian.com
I was an undergraduate at Cambridge when Chariots Of Fire was filmed and was roped in as an extra in a number of scenes. The one where the main characters run around the quad at Trinity College was actually filmed at Eton: we were all bussed out there for that, and for the dining hall scene with Lindsay Anderson giving a speech as the Master.
WhineBuff On theguardian.com
Single mattress in a Honda CR-V? That’s nothing: I got a double mattress in a Ford Ka.
G Martin Jordan
Manchester
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