u/InviteAromatic6124

Growing up, I had a regimented bedtime schedule, and I hated being told when to go to bed because "I wasn't tired".

As an adult now, however, I appreciate the importance of a sleep schedule to allow me to function. My partner did not have a strict bedtime when she was a child (she was raised by her grandparents mainly and they let her go to bed whenever she liked), and now as an adult she struggles with going to sleep at a reasonable time, can't function in the mornings whatsoever and is always tired until the late evening when she finally starts feeling awake.

Hi everyone, my partner and I will be celebrating our 6th anniversary this coming September. Our actual anniversary is the 31st of August, but we want to avoid that weekend because of cost, and we have a wedding on the 6th of September.

We're looking at going away somewhere in the UK for a Center Parcs-style activity weekend. We've already been to Center Parcs in the Lake District as a couple back in 2021, but the prices for that are just too high right now. We know about Bluestone Resort in Pembrokeshire, which is similar and a lot cheaper, but my partner will be in that area for the National Eisteddfod in August and doesn't really fancy two trips down there in a month. We'd consider the Lake District again if no better options are available, and we went to Lincolnshire recently, so that's discounted too. We've also been to East Yorkshire and Devon relatively recently. We've also been to South Wales a lot, so we would prefer somewhere we haven't been to.

We live in Bangor in North Wales, and I can drive. We're looking for places like Haven/Butlins that are more catered to outdoor activities for adults rather than families.

Where would people recommend within the UK for a weekend trip with fun outdoor activities at a relatively affordable cost?

I've heard many parents say they had multiple kids because they didn't want their first child to be lonely, but I'm pretty sure it's a load of baloney that only children are lonely.

If they're able to make friends with other kids their age and have extended family like cousins who are also of a similar age then they'll have people to stop them getting lonely.

I haven't met many only children and those I have met said they did feel lonely sometimes but only a couple said they wished they had siblings. One even said they liked being the centre of attention all the time and not needing to share anything.

Only children, what was your experience growing up? Were you lonely and did you wish you had siblings?

When I start a series of books, more often than not I will read the whole series to the end. However, there are a few exceptions. For me, a few of the series I never finished include:

1. A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket. I read the first three books just before the film came out and only got as far as book 6. I wasn't the right target age as I was 14 when I started and really those books felt like they were for ages 10-12.

2. The Power of Five - Anthony Horowitz. I was a huge fan of Alex Rider and had read all of that series until then and started this series because it was by the same author. I read book 3 and then grew out of YA books as I was nearing university age.

3. The Demonata - Darren Shan. I had never read any of his other books when I picked up the first book "Lord Loss" and, like The Power of Five, I read the first 3 books before I grew out of them.

4. The Lord of The Rings. I made it to about 1/3 of the way through Return of the King before I got bored. I really want to finish reading it at some point!

What book series did you never get to finish?

If I a "What If? Machine" like in Futurama, I'd ask it "what if I had been diagnosed as autistic when I was a child?" so I could see how different my life might have been had I been able to get more support for my social problems growing up.

My partner would ask "what if I never broke my leg?" as that was the moment in her life aged 11 when everything went to shit for her.

My partner and I just came back from a weekend visiting my parents and we found a very mouldy loaf of bread on the kitchen counter on our return. I ask her why she didn't put it in the freezer so it wouldn't go mouldy and she said "my family has never put bread in the freezer".

This blew my mind as I always freeze bread as I don't eat it often and freeze it so it lasts way longer.

Is this a common practice to freeze your bread so it lasts longer, or do you folks not bother and just eat it as you go?

Edit: to clarify why I didn't put the bread in the freezer before we left. I didn't know there was still bread left over as we both have our own bread and she normally eats her bread before it goes mouldy. Had I known that she still had a lot of her loaf left, I would have put it in the freezer for her.

What songs are there where a moral is given right at the end? For example, in The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest by Bob Dylan the last verse goes:

The moral of this story,
The moral of this song
Is simply one should never be
Where one does not belong.
So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin'
Help him with his load
And don't go mistaking Paradise
For that home across the road

Another of his is "Rambling, Gambling Willie": So all you rovin' gamblers, wherever you might be, The moral of this story is very plain to see. Make your money while you can, before you have to stop, For when you pull that dead man's hand, your gamblin' days are up.

There's also "Cedars of Lebanon" by U2 which ends with "Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you/ Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you/ They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends/ Gonna last with you longer than your friends"

I can't say it's something I've heard in many other songs.