Luisa Dillner (Eat plants, try pilates and stay positive: how to keep your body younger than your years, 28 May) advises us against sitting if we want to be healthy in old age. It’s obviously a good thing to stay as healthy as possible, but there’s also the consideration that leading a miserable ascetic life just to live a longer miserable ascetic life is a questionable aim.
Karin Barry
London
• Thank you for the list of events to be avoided (From pageants to picnics: 20 great jubilee days out, 30 May), but my problem is finding a Sunday church service that celebrates Pentecost, not the Queen.
Fr Chris Benson
Manaton, Devon
• Rosemary Penwarden is defined as a “63-year-old grandmother” and her male assistant as a “refrigeration engineer”, with no age given (New Zealand woman creates her own electric car for $24,000,27 May). How can her age and procreation status be relevant when her profession is not? I don’t expect the perpetuation of sexist reporting tropes in the Guardian.
Lindsay Gough
Bristol
• Rodney Smith’s naming of his tumour Boris (Letters, 29 May) reminded me of Dennis Potter naming his liver cancer Rupert . Guardian readers can probably guess which Rupert.
David Garner
Southport
• How to sleep in the heat (Less booze, more salads, maybe separate bedrooms: how to sleep better in the spring and summer, 29 May)? I’ve filed that one until the time comes here in the north-east of England.
Dorothy Mitchell
Sunderland
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