Fitness | Tantrums | Academies | Hillary Clinton | LatinOf course you can be “fit after 40” (Run for your life!,G2, 8 March). At 65 I’ve started doing the Saturday morning parkrun. This is arguably the most important, or largely unsung,public health initiative for decades. Every Saturday morning approximately 80000 people across the UK converge on a local park for a 5k run. A couple of hours later, an email arrives with your time, and whether it’s a personal best and an age-related score. All ages and all shapes and sizes take portion and it’s hugely supportive. After a few weeks I was addicted. It’s a fab way to start the weekend and I’ve lost a stone. Register via www.parkrun.org.uk.
Roger Williams
Nottingham• Anyone who has been trapped in a queue near a toddler,beet-faced with rage, emitting screams piercing enough to fuse your inner ear bones, or will be grateful to the parent who scoops up the diminutive,er, dear, or takes it out of earshot,and sympathise with the shopworker who asks them to execute it (John Lewis says sorry to mother asked to leave after child’s tantrum, 8 March). Would that the noise of all the EU referendum’s Violet Elizabeth Botts, and “thcreaming and thcreaming” until they are “thick”,be as simply dealt with!
Judith Mackinlay
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Source: theguardian.com