Dear Sharon,

I READ your article about your son joining you on holiday just after we came back from our caravan in Northumberland.

Our children stopped coming with us when they were 16 and 17, but now they and their families all come and join us for a few days each year and we take the next generation down to the beach, Bamburgh Castle, Holy Island etc. It’s all very simple and basic, but we have a lovely time. I expect the oldest grandchildren will soon stop coming, but we’ll all have lovely memories of our family time together.

Margaret Winston (by email).

Hi Sharon, MANY of the fast food outlets are currently involved in a promotion/ advertising campaign.

The slogan is very short, only four words which say: ‘’Don’t cook. Just eat’’. And we wonder why as a nation we have an obesity problem.

Martin Birtle (by email).