u/Irksomecake

I’m not thinking of buying, as I already have my ticket. My ticket cost £55. What could possibly be in the vip experience that is worth £700 more?Ticketmaster is only selling these inflated vip tickets, despite the venue still having standard ones available.

My daughter is turning 10 soon and loves reading. She has requested a Fantasy book or series with magical beings, woodland creatures, and fairies. She loves political intrigue, drama and betrayal.

So far she’s loved the Percy Jackson series, all the Harry Potter books, and Impossible creatures. She’s read lots of classics like Narnia and the hobbit.

She dislikes romance.

She enjoys dark themes.

She appreciates humour.

Well written female characters are essential too!

I’m stuck in a cycle of injuries. I go for a run, it feels great. I get home, sleep and the following day I’m like a cripple, barely able to move. I tell myself it’s doms, wait for the pain to ease and try again more slowly after a few weeks. Sometimes I get 3-4 good runs before I find myself too injured to continue for a few more weeks. I have new, better shoes, I slow right down, and when I’m running I have no pain, no weird sensations at all until after. I was making excellent progress in spring, breaking my personal best at either speed or distance almost every week. Now each run gets progressively slower, yet more tiring.

I’ve taken a break for a few weeks as the weather has been prohibitively warm and I have other commitments during school holidays and I’m now ready to try again. Is restarting a couch25k program a good way of building up slowly enough to prevent injury? I completed one a couple of years ago but im thinking I might be back to the couch and not able to run the 5km at all at the moment despite being able to run 6-8 km just a few months ago.

A few days ago I was at the seaside eating chips and contemplating this. A seagull or two stood politely nearby but didn’t really approach us. I used to live and work by the sea in several locations and have always like eating lunch and icecream outside. The birds are always really chill.

My kids are 8 and 9 and are competent readers. They have both been reading the diary of a wimpy kid books and their behaviour has become increasingly challenging. While it may not be the books there’s a definite increase in cynicism and negative perceptions that reflect the attitudes in the books.

They have already read

All of Rauld Dahls books

Narnia

Pongwiffy

How to train your dragon

The wombles

The hobbit

The eldest has read all of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson

We are looking for some funny series they might both enjoy

I love historical fiction with plenty of action, but not excessive blood, guts and explicit sex or rape scenes.

Outlander and the Vikings are examples of what i am not looking for.

It’s getting easier already

I’m not aching afterwards nearly as much as I was in shoes. The niggling pains of recovered tendinitis and bursitis is not increased.

I was slow before and I’m even slower now. But it’s not a race and slow is okay.

It’s quiet without shoes. So quiet I scared several unsuspecting walkers who couldn’t hear me approach.

Different terrains have entirely different obstacles to navigate which affects your movement more then I expected. This makes speed incredibly inconsistent.

Spiky plants are sometimes very hard to avoid. Thistles, holly, brambles and hawthorn are common where I live and I spent a lot of time jumping over or going around them to avoid splinters.

Gravel is a special kind of pain

It will be a while before I stop taking my wetshoes/skinners with me.

I’ve just finished the long awaited conclusion of a long awaited trilogy and have been left incredibly disappointed for multiple reasons.

I’m hoping for:

-great characters and character development.

-Satisfying conclusion.

-not a romance

I’m not looking for:

Guy gavriel Kay

Susanna Clarke

Neil Gaiman

Katherine Adderson

Madeleine Miller

Brandon Sanderson

Samantha Shannon

I love:

Robin Hobb

Josiah Bancroft

Marie Brennan

Joe Abercrombie

Mark Lawrence

Matt dinniman

I have been experimenting with taking my shoes and socks off on gentle hikes with various terrain. I find it incredibly intense. The sensory overload of feeling each grass stem and piece of gravel is almost overwhelming. So far it is a relief to both take my shoes off, and then after a while put them back on.

One of the hikes I’ve been doing is also my running route to test but whether it’s possible.

As a kid I would hike and run and play happily unshod, but as an adult it’s more challenging.

Is there a point of reduced sensitivity that means I can start running unshod?

I would start now, but while my heart says yes, my head says no. My feet usually say nothing until it’s too late and I’m injured.

Is making a set of barefoot sandals a better step to take?

I may have never had the condition, as my healthcare provider laughed at the suggestion of a meat allergy and said there was no such test. Alpha-gal allergy is considered extremely rare in my country. However my symptoms were consistent and only occurred after eating mammal meat. Initially I would have hives that appeared 4 hours after eating mammal meat or gelatine, then stomach pain so intense i couldn’t function. I wasn’t particularly reactive to dairy, however I had residual tick bites that only became itchy after I consumed it. This symptoms all started after receiving around 30 tick bites last summer.

After quitting dairy my bites all stopped itching. I reintroduced it a couple of months ago and how no reaction. I have since reintroduced small amounts of meat with no ill effects.

Is it possible to the symptoms to diminish in such a short timeframe? As I have never had a tingly or swollen throat or respiratory issues from any allergy I am not too concerned about anaphylaxis.

The last puscifer gig I went to didn’t sell out completely as it was poorly advertised, but I’m not certain if they have gained popularity and tickets will be in short supply.