Charles Foster is a bit strange, maybe, but I can see where he’s coming from. I used to walk miles in woodland at night without a torch, and it brings a whole new interpretation of your senses into play. Once you lose the fear of being lost, and the general fear of everything else, it brings a feeling of serenity and power. I didn’t pretend to be an animal, but I did tell myself I was the baddest beast in the woods.
auldcynic On theguardian.com
If that Charles Foster has been digging up my tulips, I’ll bloody shoot him.
Peter Carter
South Woodchester, Gloucestershire
It’s ironic that Patsy Feeley considers the food better in prison than in care homes. My mother lives in a care home, but has to self-fund. Maybe the Hatton Garden gang realised that, if they were caught, they’d be looked after by the state in their old age.
Sarah Ellis
London
The commoditisation of meditation is inevitable in our culture, but it may inadvertently contribute to us throwing the mindfulness baby out with the bath water: clinical trials have led to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy being recommended for the treatment of recurrent depression in adults.
Richard Maddicks
Portsmouth
It is surely arrogance that allows us to plunder the wisdom of the east and apply it, like a plaster, to our neuroses. In the east, mindfulness meditation is part of a spiritual practice, and typically taught by a practitioner with decades of experience. The willingness with which the west selects convenient aspects of eastern spiritual practice while ignoring other aspects, such as the importance of a skilled teacher, confirms that we are still shallow in approach.
Pam Hackett
Leominster, Herefordshire
I was reading Comings And Goings on the toilet when my four-year-old burst in with a drawing of a whale. I never thought I’d say this, but part of me will be sad when I can go to the loo uninterrupted. The expecting couples have no idea how hard the next few years will be, but my advice would be to throw the kitchen sink at it. It’s all worth it.
imaloserbaby On theguardian.com
Bridget Christie beefs about a phone at the cinema, yet she slurps coffee and munches popcorn?
Henry Clarke
Great Longstone, Derbyshire
Bridget Christie says we “can’t see a hare in the woods without tweeting or Instagramming it”. Thing is, they live in open countryside. Google it.
Nick Sinclair
Suffolk
Never mind What I’m Really Thinking. I’m still awaiting the revival of That’s My Pet.
Nancy Males
South London
Bowie. Rickman. The Old Dog. Enough now.
Peter Waters
Totnes, Devon
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