Acting as chauffeur for my better half at the weekend while she met up with a few of her female friends whom she sees now and again, this occasion being a belated 60th birthday celebration, made me realise how well women seem to age compared to us blokes.

This bevy of beauties I saw on Saturday after knowing them for 45 years seemed to have not aged one bit. So that poses the question: is there something in the make-up of a woman or something in the make-up she uses that preserves them so well? Although it is lovely to see them all still with their looks and energy a part of me finds it a tad depressing, or is that just a bloke thing?

Terry Jerrard, Slades Farm Road