I’ve glad Lucy Mangan loves north Norfolk (Digested week: north Norfolk’s middle-age spread, and panic at the school disco, 1 July). However, along with her beloved small shops and flat walks, it has low wages, season-dependent employment, a lack of affordable housing and poverty, as demonstrated by a huge rise in the use of food banks. It is a lovely place to live for some of us, but no more immune from the ravages of this government’s policies than anywhere else.
Roz Treadway
Sheringham, Norfolk
• Cast down by dire predictions due to your inability to stand on one leg (Letters, 1 July)? Then try windmilling your arms to improve mental health. Experts mostly doubt its alleged benefit to blood circulation. However, you cannot help but smile while doing it –though only when the downswing is in a forward direction. So says my brother, anyway.
Ailsa Cregan
Datchworth, Hertfordshire
