Good for Gianluca Grimalda (Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher. It’s a price worth paying, 12 October). So many people, myself included, would have taken the easy flight out and sacrificed their principles regarding climate change and the impact of long-haul flights. Hopefully his employers will have a rethink.
Judith A Daniels
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
• In a newspaper that regularly features people struggling to pay for life’s basics, I was surprised to read Sali Hughes extolling the virtues of an anti-aging cream at £75 (At last, gentler anti-ageing serums that really work, 13 October). I am almost 80; let me think, do I buy a week’s groceries and put a bit towards bills, or fork out for this?
Jean Austin
Crawley, West Sussex
• Derek Niemann (Country diary, 12 October) considers that women don’t feel safe walking in the countryside. I must reassure him that this woman has rambled alone all her life, and has never felt unsafe. On the other hand, I have been physically assaulted three times, and verbally many times, when walking in towns in daylight.
Jenny Haxell
Ipswich, Suffolk
• So, Madonna’s concert features “a witty recreation of a drag ball for Vogue. She performs Hung Up in the midst of writhing topless female dancers” (Madonna review – queen of pop dazzles with her greatest hits, 15 October). Sadly, in this day and age, writhing topless female dancers are still anything but funny.
Debbie Cameron
Formby, Merseyside
• I’ve been rescued by HRT for nigh-on 40 years, after an early menopause (Letters, 13 October). I’m still caring for a 92-year-old husband, and dancing the polka, and don’t intend to stop.
Elaine Fullard
Oxford
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