Luisa Dillner (Eat plants, try pilates and stay positive: how to keep your body younger than your years, 28 May) advises us against sitting if we want to be healthy in old age. It’s obviously a good thing to stay as healthy as possible, but there’s also the consideration that leading a miserable ascetic life just to live a longer miserable ascetic life is a questionable aim.
Karin Barry
London
• Thank you for the list of events to be avoided (From pageants to picnics: 20 great jubilee days out, 30 May), but my problem is finding a Sunday church service that celebrates Pentecost, not the Queen.
Fr Chris Benson
Manaton, Devon
