What occurred to the enjoyment of leisure sport (‘I spent per week crying. I’ve by no means had an harm in my life!’ Why accomplish that many health followers find yourself needing surgical procedure?, 3 August)? It’s like fashionable life – aim and target-oriented. PBs, what number of laps, lengths, miles? Need to get the laps in, even when the again is killing me. Why? Is it about bragging rights? As a lifelong sports activities and train fanatic aged 77 and nonetheless loving it, I actually don’t perceive the motivation for wilfully destroying your physique within the title of sport.Barbara SmythCheltenham, Gloucestershire
My expertise of WhatsApp blue ticks differs (Letters, 29 July). Through the Covid pandemic, every single day I rejoiced in seeing the blue tick on a message from a member of the family who lived alone and had Covid: they have been nonetheless alive.Ann NewellThame, Oxfordshire
Patrick Barkham wouldn’t be so keen on woodlice (‘Bumbling, mumbling’ tidiers of our world: the sudden superpowers of the widespread woodlouse, 3 August) if, like me, he discovered them every single day munching into his ripening strawberries on his allotment.Malcolm RiversIsleworth, London
Your day by day Nation Diary column is all the time informative, however I encourage readers to hitch the sport it affords. I cowl up the title of its writer earlier than studying the column after which guess whether or not it was written by a person or a lady. I’m appropriate 99% of the time. No disrespect to the contributors is meant.Ros CordinerLudham, Norfolk
Re the article From The Wizard of Oz to Trainspotting: 25 movies to observe earlier than you flip 25 (2 August), somebody on the Guardian has an optimistic concept of the paper’s readership profile.Mike Hine (age 79¾)Kingston upon Thames, London
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