‘Shut the gyms, open more libraries’

• I AM amazed at the number of gymnasiums opening around Swiss Cottage.

Bearing in mind you can run for free over our very local Primrose Hill, or in circles around Swiss Cottage open space, and jump up and down while waiting for a bus, what’s the point?

The only real exercise you will be getting at these noisy establishments (it seems you cannot exercise without loud music) is in your bank account. Money should be put aside for a hearing aid in preparation for your 40s.

What are the residents of Swiss Cottage planning? Is there to be an invasion of St John’s Wood, Kilburn, Kentish Town? Should we be told?

All this muscle power and yet not a brain cell in gear to challenge those in positions of authority over us. Shut the gyms, open more libraries, start exercise classes in critical thinking and there might be hope for us all.

Running on the spot,

ELAINE CHAMBERS, NW3