In good company for aches and pains | Brief letters

Everyday afflictions | New moons | Art appreciation | Cinema ads | End of the peer showRegarding Adrian Chiles’s article (I twanged my achilles playing pickleball. Here’s what it taught me about tendons – and human nature, 12 March), now I am in my 70s, life does seem to be a succession of various aches and pains, which can be irksome to the spirit. Am I alone in feeling a little solace when hearing of others having similar afflictions?
Michael Fuller
Bedford• A friend onc