Miriam Clegg claims her life with Nick is “similar to that of many working couples”. So, they alternate unpredictable shifts on zero-hours contracts to try to have one parent at home with the children; they struggle to make ends meet due to low pay and cuts in tax credits; and they subsidise parents to avoid them being evicted due to bedroom tax?
Christopher Clayton
Waverton, Cheshire
The fact that Miriam Clegg speaks three languages is worth a mention only on our insular isle. Across the Channel, to be fluent in three, four, even five languages is the norm for professional people.
Mark Lucas
By email
Tom Ford’s principal legacy seems to be that if you’re cute, rich and young, the world is your oyster. And that currying favour with the rich-and-getting-richer is an honorable life’s work.
relater On theguardian.com
I really like Tom Ford: his clothes (even though I cannot afford them), his aesthetics and, above all, his film A Single Man – he should make more films.
immigrant2001 On theguardian.com
If I had looked as gorgeous as Imogen Fox without makeup when I was 40, there is no way I’d have even considered contouring.
Anna Wilson
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Imogen Fox looks beautiful in her makeup-free photo; in her “after” photo, she just looks heavily made up. Women everywhere, especially mothers of daughters, take note.
Susan Furmage
Mickle Trafford, Cheshire
My 19-year-old dresses just as I did at her age in 1979. It’s deja vu over and over.
Bluejil On theguardian.com
Let’s not revive 1970s men’s fashions: high-waisted trousers, stacked shoes, short-sleeved tank tops, shirts with silly collars and, oh lord, kipper ties.
DebW On theguardian.com
I could be classed as a “wet nurse” of modern times. When giving birth 45 years ago, out of 38 mothers on the maternity ward, only five were breastfeeding. I had so much surplus milk that I was able to feed most of the babies in the premature baby unit. Manually expressing, too.
Mary Fallon
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Yotam Ottolenghi’s memory of 70s food differs a bit from mine. I don’t recall lemon and mascarpone mille-feuille or quails with amaranth porridge; it was more prawn cocktail and black forest gateau. Maybe one of us was in a parallel universe.
Ian Dowding
Herstmonceux, East Sussex
Will there ever be another Blind Date featuring a clean-shaven man?
Stuart Hannay
Yell, Shetland
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