Our pick of your best letters and some wise words from our favourite stars…

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Our lives, your lives... that’s life!

Dear Simon, I was particularly interested in Sylvia Lee’s item on Cope’s Pools in Yesterday Remembered (Pools Party, December). I worked at the company’s offices in Edmonton, north London in 1966-67.

Letter of the week Keeping mum I ...

Burdened by her job, Natalie turned to nature for comfort and found something rather unexpected