Grandmothers are tired of being patronised

SIR – Jan Etherington (Comment, July 30) is correct about society’s attitude towards grandmothers.

As a modern grandmother in my seventies, I have long been annoyed by age discrimination, especially the patronising word “Bless”, addressed to me, often by professionals, in response to something I have said. Next time it happens I may clobber the culprit with my brightly coloured walking stick. Joy Boddington

Reading, Berkshire

Age is no barrier: older women take part in a ballet dancing lesson in Zhengzhou, China