Re your report (Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s, 25 November), when my future wife announced our imminent wedding to her parents, her mother’s only advice was: “Don’t marry him – he’ll always think he’s 17.” As it turned out, she was quite right. The year was 1974, and I still behave pretty much like a 17-year-old, although I’m now 78.
Richard Grothusen
Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
• The question of whether rage rooms are really good for us (Report, 29 November) is a difficult one to answer. But I think Charles Dickens got there first with Mr Jarndyce’s “Growlery” in Bleak House. As he explains to Esther Summerson, his ward, “When I am out of humour, I come and growl here”.
Marie Paterson
Nuneaton, Warwickshire
• Re inaptly named places (Letters, 30 November), when visiting Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, we had endless entertainment, as just about everything there was named after the town. My favourite was the Manly Ladies and Associates Swimming Club.
Maxine Melling
Lytham St Anne’s, Lancashire
• The letter on inaptly named places reminded me of the Ugley Women’s Institute branch in Essex.
John Knott
Benfleet, Essex
• The Loose Women’s Institute, near Maidstone, Kent?
John Hougham
Shinfield, Berkshire
• Monday’s Codeword had the given letters at 6 and 7 – not you too!
Phil Coughlin
Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear
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