Letter of the month

As chance would have it, I picked up my wife’s copy of The Weekly just after we had returned from a pep talk on positive ageing. If we needed any more encouragement it was there in spades in articles on the 90-year-old Queen ( WW, June), the octogenarian Joan Collins ( On-screen Kissing Is Horrible) and that other ageless 90-year-old, David Attenborough (“I Could Never Put My Feet Up”).. All bear testimony to the part keeping active plays in staying young at heart. The Queen has been on the throne more than 60 years; Joan Collins acting almost as long and Sir David has been thrilling us with the natural world since the 1950s. It was heartening to read how Attenborough resisted the temptation to “hide under the bed” on his 90th birthday. He’s one who will not go gently into that night.

L. CLARKE, NORTH SYDNEY, NSW.