Don’t think of yourself as old – you’re younger now than you’ll ever be. A reader has advice on how best to approach retirement.

Without the onsite warden my mother would have been dead for 6-7 hours before I would have found her. How awful would that have been?

Taking cash out abroad is never going to be cheap. But the high interest rates applied means that it's advisable never withdraw cash on a credit card either at home or abroad unless it is an absolute emergency, says MT's Debt Doctor Russell Cavanagh.

I am responding to your invitation in your article ‘A taste of their own medicine’.

I’ve often found that another useful approach is ‘If you think it’s a good idea, why don’t you try it first?’

I live in a residential home in Dalton in Furness. To get to my nearest post office I would have to book a wheelchair taxi, which would cost me £11 return. 

I appreciate that sometimes the "little man" at the source of our supply chain is often inadequately paid and therefore I am basically in agreement with the idea of goods being "Fairly Traded".  However, I think that it is important that the transaction is fair to me as well.
 

I refer  to Jim Tilley's email about the old Butlin's style holidays (see link below). I went on four Holiday Camp holidays during the years 61-67 with my mate Andy and his Mum & Dad; I was 17 in 1961, and I remember those holidays as some of the best ever.