In response to your secret diary of a prepay meter fitter, do you think he could offer tips to alleviate my insomnia by explaining how he sleeps at night (Stab vests, huge dogs and escape routes: the secret diary of a prepay meter fitter, 10 February)?
Norman Calvedine
Glasgow
• Claiming we have a “zombie government” seems unkind on the undead (Ford to cut nearly 4,000 jobs in Europe, including 1,300 in UK, 14 February). Might “economically inactive” be more accurate?
David Upton
Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire
• The new fashion director of John Lewis seems determined to do away with the floral midi dress – while acknowledging that “it’s not easy because customers love them” (‘We’ve got to move on’: John Lewis declares death of the floral midi dress, 10 February). How not to run a business in hard times.
Clare Addison
Marston, Oxfordshire
• If I may politely offer a counterpoint to Susanna Abse’s contention that “the biggest risk to intimate relationships is silence” (Tell your partner you love them – not just on Valentine’s Day, but every day, 14 February) – same sentence, but insert the words “not enough” in the appropriate place.
Mark Dowd
Manchester
• I cut our lawn here in Hertfordshire on 1 February, 12 days earlier than your correspondent (Letters, 15 February) heard lawnmowing in Northamptonshire.
Michael Robinson
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
• Middle age (Whatever happened to middle age? The mysterious case of the disappearing life stage, 16 February) is when nostalgia replaces hope.
Denny Plowman
Nottingham
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