I'm a museum curator who spends a lot of time mollocking around in vast stores. Given the conditions – heavy objects, 13ft-high shelves, I find it's a good thing not to be wearing pretty items of clothing that flap about. Jeans usually fit the bill and can be chosen to look moderately smart in office situations (Letters, 27 January). Given also that age (55) is causing me to lose my nerve in the wobbling-on-13ft-high-ladder stakes, I would love to be a lumberjack, because then I might be OK.
Helen Rees
Southampton
• In the village where I live, with its broad dairy farming hinterland, jeans are the dress of choice for all ages and both sexes. And usually tucked inside green wellies. It works on every level.
Nick Nolan
Ballylanders, Co Limerick
• Your report (26 January) on the surprising slide towards recession reports a "severe drop in manufacturing and construction output in the runup to Christmas". Yet no mention of the true cause, which as every sensible economist knows was the complete lack of snow. The reason for this unseasonal phenomenon? I blame the last Labour government.
Neil Cleeveley
Sheffield
• I'm sick of hearing about negative growth. Give us some positive contraction, man.
Bill Hush
Edinburgh
• By his own admission under-fire Spurs boss Harry Redknapp writes like a two-year-old (Report, 27 January). So who writed his weekly Sun column, then? You couldn't make this stuff up.
Max Bell
Thame, Oxfordshire
• Yes, how dare you, free of charge, give us colourful recipe cards featuring interesting new ingredients (Letters, 26 January)? You cynical bastards.
Stuart Darmon
Coventry
• I don't mind sport being part of the main paper; I don't miss the daytime TV listings; but where in your new design is the letter from Fr Alec Mitchell?
Alison Joseph
London