Your Letters
On average, then, "youth" ends at around 40 and "middle age" starts at around 54. That seems to leave a large unnamed gap. "Post youth" perhaps?
John Marsh, Washington DC, USA
Re Michelle (Monday letters): Proud - mine were bought last month and wrapped last week. Admittedly, I have no tree under which to store them.
RG, Watford, Herts
Michelle - ashamed.
Ed, Wakefield
Michelle, the shops are stocked full of "festive" merchandise in the UK a friend tells me. They bought some mince pies in a well-known supermarket and on looking at the expiry date it read "Best before December 12th 2012".
Tim McMahon, Martos/Spain
With regard to this story, which is linked as "Illegal rat meat 'sold to public'" I wasn't aware that it was possible to purchase legal rat meat. If not the public who is the illegal rat meat normally sold to?
Robert, Glos, UK
Prowling ninjas in a cinema? I think I'd prefer someone answering their phone to the sight of Lycra-clad warriors distracting me from the film.
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
A five-year ban on entering toilets and changing rooms for women? I always thought we as men had a lifetime ban on entering those places, not just for five years.
Johan van Slooten, Urk, The Netherlands