I found the piece on food memories incredibly moving. I lost my mum recently, and had just been thinking how I would miss all the lovely things she used to make. Especially toad in the hole, my childhood favourite that Mum later adapted when I became vegetarian. I hope to recreate it, but it won't be a patch on my mum's.
Laura Towers
Claremont, Devon
I saw the "All I want for Christmas is food!" cover and honestly thought it was a story about people who'd be glad to have enough to eat. Then I read further: "Plan your holiday feasting…" Perhaps all of us – Christmas, Guardian Weekend and I – are having an identity crisis.
Richard Goosey
Craven Arms, Shropshire
A ton is par for the course for Christmas Day lunch? Not round here, it isn't. My local Wetherspoon is offering it for £24.99.
Alex Koval
Bury, Lancashire
I remember a hotel dining room one Christmas Day, surrounded by tables occupied mostly by threesomes: husband, wife and mother or father. All looked like they wished they were somewhere else with someone else. And, in the background, Elvis was blaring out, "It'll be lonely this Christmas without you."
Leon Rogers
London E12
It was wonderful to see the great Mary Berry in the 30 November Q&A. I scanned down for the "How often do you have sex?" question. And you didn't ask it. Very disappointed.
Helen Kenny
Lancashire
To the forum moderator, you are doing a job, and a damned good one. Without you, comment columns would be overrun by trolls and not worth reading. There is no reason to consider your life "sad". I rely on Guardian commenters to add substance and insight to opinion pieces, and I look forward to reading their views. I doubt they'd bother posting on unmoderated columns, so keep up the good work.
Graeme Tearle
Thames, New Zealand
Eleanor Rutter says you were irresponsible for publishing a photo of a man smoking a cigarette because he once played a popular children's character. Daniel Radcliffe is an actor, not a role model for the young and impressionable. It's up to parents to make their kids aware of the dangers of various habits; neither Weekend nor Radcliffe has any duty to hide the fact that he smokes.
Roisin Moriarty
Oxford
Anti-slavery International defines someone as being in slavery if they are forced to work through mental or physical threat, owned or controlled by an employer through mental or physical abuse or threat of abuse, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as property or physically constrained. June Petty's suggestion that unpaid internships amount to "modern slavery" demonstrates startling ignorance, and is offensive to those 20.9 million people who the International Labour Organisation estimate are currently in slavery in the world.
Bridget Irving
London NW5
Mackenzie Crook misses the point: being a grown-up comes when both of your parents are dead and you realise, it's me next.
Sheila Hannay
Glasgow
Tim Dowling's 30 November column was a brilliant piece of creative writing, and helped my Saturday start with a bounce. Thank you.
Grahame Sturges
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
Sam Wollaston gives an electric car a green rating of 9/10. What would get 10/10 then?
Lisa Honan
Hove, East Sussex
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