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A couple of important notes⬇️
- Kate McDonald withdrew after a minor injury in podium training as a precaution with Commonwealth Games coming up
- Ruby Pass .4 bonus on vault for doing a 5.0+ vault
- AA and apparatus medals are awarded on day 2 using scores from both days combined together

WAG senior top 8
Breanna Scott 53.166
Emily Whitehead 52.665
Georgia Godwin 52.498
Ruby Pass 50.300
Haylee Whitehead 49.465
Sophie Leo 49.132
Miella Brown 49.099
Romi Brown 48.465

WAG junior top 8
Madelyn Fazio 52.332
Olivia Meaney 50.732
Alice Johnson 50.066
Matilda Cleven 46.665
Zara Andrews 45.165
Shaydon Atkinson 44.065
Alissia Acharya 43.398
Alexandra Kusumah 43.365

Day 2 will be streamed live and free on Gymnastics Australia’s Youtube channel at 5:30pm AEST (GMT+10) on Friday

Mixed team competition will take place on Saturday at 5pm AEST

Full results ⬇️
https://public.scoreexpress.io/competitions/aa9b78be5ced430ce86558678a3646b9/d6e25b09d33e860d211660906a5c5c95?category=d6e25b09d33e860d211660906a5c9704&round&ranking

hi everyone!! just doing a little market research and wanted to hear from some actual parents 👀 i run an Etsy shop where I sell digital/printable invitations and i’m mainly in the kids party niche. i try to make my invitations stand out from others by hand drawing all my designs in a watercolour style rather than just using pre-made elements on Canva. what are some popular or trending themes or even some more niche themes that might fit within my style? i am open to doing basically anything besides characters! bonus for boy or gender neutral themes because i mostly only have girl ones.

Does anyone else get flares after having some sort of event with a narcissistic parent or is it just a coincidence this time. i know POTS and CPTSD both have to do with the nervous system but I don’t know much about the relation between the two. it’s currently winter where i live and i tend to not have flares during in winter. i mostly go about my normal life. but yesterday i walked in on my narcissistic mother talking shit and telling lies about me to other family members. she caught me and i got in a lot of trouble i was up until 3am crying.
today i wake up and boom my heart is racing, i am having trouble being up right, i can barely make it upstairs, i just feel so. unwell. it can’t just be a coincidence can it??? sometimes i wonder if all my emotional trauma had a part in causing me to develop POTS. even if it didn’t i strongly feel like it plays a role it making it worse.

i would love to hear other peoples experiences with this sort of thing.

how do i deal with this. my sister is NASTY to me and im guessing its because of this. its happened too many times. i also hear her on the phone to family and friends making up stories about me that are complete lies or twisting stories to make me look like a bad person. help me

this might be a dumb question but i’ve never gone away for more than a week and i usually just bring my full size toiletries. i don’t want to do that for this trip because want to minimise the amount of luggage space im using. but if i am not taking my full size products what do i take? small travel sized toiletries probably wont be enough for a month. do i buy stuff when i get there? i’ve also never been overseas before. this is the thing that’s stressing me out the most. i’m going to Europe from Australia if that changes anything and am taking a checked suitcase.

i don’t want to sit here and type out my whole life story but i don’t know what to do anymore i can’t keep doing this. she takes all her anger out on me, finds a way to blame me for everything, has taught my younger sister that it’s ok to also treat me this way.

i get called things on the daily such as selfish, entitled, wasteful, spoilt brat, no empathy, emotional intelligence of a rock, only care about myself. i get blamed for other people’s feelings, events that happen that are out of my control somehow always circle back to being my fault. i am confused because this is not who i am. or who i want to be. but what if this is how i really am. my dad and i are both suicidal and any time i express any of my thoughts it’s always “and what about your father? he is like this because of you and now you are trying to make it about yourself”.

last night i needed to put on a load of washing because i am about 3 loads behind (it’s all my parents and my sisters). i remembered the last time i put on washing at night time without asking i got in a lot of trouble and my mum threatened to have me evicted because of it so last night i decided i would wait until the morning but i got called selfish for leaving it for mum to put on in the morning. i am confused.

i don’t understand what i have done to deserve this.

Hey guys, i’m heading to Europe for the first time this year at the end of September. I land in London in the last few days of September and spend 5 days there and then throughout October will travel through Paris, Amsterdam, the Bavarian Alps, Salzburg and Florence. 30 days total i will be there for.

I come from a sub tropical climate and also run cold so I’m quite lost on what to pack in terms of thermals and layers. It goes down to around 10-15celcius at night in winter where i live and I sleep in long sleeve pajamas with 2 doonas just to give you an idea. I am taking a 68cm checked suitcase so i have space for layers.

I’m looking at uniqlo heattech but i’m just really overwhelmed about what exactly i should take on top of my regular clothes because im a fashion girl at heart

im thinking
1 x extra warm leggings
1 x regular heattech leggings
1 x extra warm top
3 x regular heattech tops (1 turtle neck, 2 for layering underneath regular tops)
1 x tracksuit pants (as pajamas, travel day pants, lounge pants)
socks ????

out of my regular clothes i haven’t decided exactly how much of what i should take yet 🫣
i own:
4 pairs of pants
6 long sleeve tops
1 hoodie (wear on plane, travel days, morning walks)
2 coats
2 jackets
3 skirts (will wear skirts with boots and tights)
i want to buy a knitted jumper + windbreaker jacket

how many of what thermals would you guys recommend taking and how many regular clothes??? 😅 i know no one can tell me EXACTLY what i should take but i just want to know what you guys would take. everything i have is either black, white, beige or light blue so easy to mix and match multiple outfits out of whatever i take!

how should compression leggings fit? i was debating between supacore and 2XU but i went with 2XU because they recently had a good sale on and i read some reviews about supacore being see through. the 2XU ones fit perfectly but im worried they aren’t tight enough. should compression leggings feel tight or should they just fit nice and snug?

Hey guys! not a runner but i have a really bad ankle and possible nerve damage in my foot. My podiatrist recommended i try Asics GT 2000s and Brooks Adrenaline. I’ve bought a pair of both but honestly don’t know which i prefer they both feel comfortable for different reasons.

I plan to take it overseas with me where I will probably be doing maybe 10-20k steps a day. Which do you think would be better for that? There is also a pair of Brooks Adrenaline 25s i like - are those worth trying?
I kind of feel that Asics feels more squishy and cushiony but Brooks maybe feel a bit more supportive?

Can anyone please point in the direction of where I can find some comfortable boots to take on my trip to Europe with me?

I’m looking for a black knee high boot with a slight heel. Bared has a lovely pair but i’m trying to see what other options are out there - also hoping to find something that isn’t leather if possible but not the end of the world if i can’t find anything. I was keen on Frankie4 but unfortunately their only black knee high boot is out of stock everywhere in my size.

I have a bad ankle and a potential strained/damaged nerve on my foot. my podiatrist recommended ascent groove sandals which have helped. my other idea is to just get some cheaper ones and get them to add some proper inserts, support, etc into it so if anyone can recommend any that are still good quality but not necessarily the most comfortable in the work please let me know.

thank you!

Hey guys, it’s me again, the difficult Switzerland friend situation! my last post was taken down due to not being Europe related but I have another update and also wanted to ask if anyone has any suggestions on itinerary changes that i could pitch to my friend.

i KNOW that this itinerary is totally ridiculous which is why im trying to change it. half of it makes absolutely zero sense to me. i’ve tried to make all my friends wants a reality because she didn’t want to give anything (she did compromise giving up switzerland to make it a day trip) but now its still causing problems. first reason the pace scares me is because i have chronic illness and don’t think i can handle it. secondly, it’s just bloody ridiculous. like everyone on this sub says we are going to have a great time seeing all the trains of europe! but maybe not much time for Europe itself. i’ve tried saying this but my friend just says she would rather see more places :(((( my goal for this trip was to get a taste of a range of different places/scenery while still having enough time to actually do things. it is supposed to be your classic interail/backpacking style trip not a vacation but it is still way too much for my liking.

One piece of context. i need to finish the trip in the Netherlands because i am there for an event by myself for 8 days. ill use my free time in these 8 days to look around the netherlands and belgium. my friend leaves 5 days before me.

Before my friend came into the picture the itinerary I had by nights was 4/4/4/3/3/3/2/8

i now have
*london 4 nights
*paris 4 nights
*nice 4 nights
*milan 2 nights (day trip to lugano)
*florence 1 night
*sleeper train 1 night
*salzburg 2 nights
*garmisch-partenkirchen 4 nights
*munich 1 night
*amsterdam 1 night
*rotterdam 8 nights (cannot change)

i removed a night off salzburg and added it to garmisch-partenkirchen because germany was really important to my friend. somehow i also ended up cutting a night off amsterdam because she wanted a night in munich

i gave up florence and traded it for milan for the switzerland day trip until i realised we have to go to florence anyway for the sleeper to salzburg because the one from milan doesn’t exist anymore. she said let’s take a night off milan and give it back to florence since we are both interested in florence but not so much milan.

my current pitches have been remove munich and add it back to amsterdam. remove milan/lugano and give it back to florence. unfortunately she didn’t really like either of these ideas. i asked why staying the night in munich is so important when we could just stop for a few hours on the way to the airport and she said because she thought it would be cool to spend that extra bit of time in another place.

i feel like im taking away all her dreams but im just trying to be realistic. even with the proposed changes it still feels like a lot. i would be happy to remove germany entirely and spend more time in other places but germany is important for my friend. i suggested removing italy at one point a while back to give more time to germany but she didnt want to remove italy. when i asked a few months ago she wasn’t open to the idea of splitting up but i haven’t asked again. i’m just stuck on what else to suggest. i’ve tried everything. salzburg is the other one that can’t go - i already gave up a few other places from my original itinerary - lake bled, most of florence, 1 night from amsterdam, amalfi (i traded for Nice). i’m just totally stuck and at a loss. i want to let her get everything she wants but i don’t want to compromise my health or my enjoyment for it. what do i suggest next 😭

Hey guys! has any from outside of Europe been able to successfully book an ÖBB nightjet? how did you do it? i’m in Australia and have been trying to book one but every time I try to pay it says “this transaction could not be processed”. i’ve tried everything from different devices, different cards, different payment methods. nothing. yes, i have tried paying directly in euros. anything else I can do besides calling the company?

I’ve been researching the Eurrail pass cost vs just getting individual tickets and it seems that it ends up roughly the same total price with or without the pass. Is this the case for a lot of people?
I’ve tried the cost of the 5 day pass just for the longer trips which are more expensive combined with individual tickets for the shorter trips, 7 day pass including longer + shorter trips, 10 day pass including day trips and they all work out to be about the same so now i’m debating should i get one or just book individual tickets? 🤔 Does having the pass make things easier for a first time traveller in Europe or is booking individual tickets just as easy and straight forward?
The itinerary is
London
Paris
Nice (will visit Menton, possibly Monaco, Antibes)
Milan
Florence
ÖBB nightjet to Salzburg
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (day trip to Neuschwenstein)
Munich

EDIT: thanks everyone! it’s not a bad allergy so seems as though it will be fine to just ask to be given whatever is on the tray that doesn’t have mushrooms. was already planning on brining some snacks of my own :)

So I am vegan but have a mushroom allergy. I’ve seen that a lot of the vegan meals on emirates have mushrooms in them. If I request ahead of time would they be able to only use the vegan meals that don’t have mushrooms in them or can they not do that? If they can’t do that, when they bring the special meals around can I ask if any of the dishes have mushrooms and if they do just decline it and just take the dishes like the bread and dessert?

I know the vegetarian jain meal is technically vegan and doesn’t have mushrooms but I don’t know how i will go with spicy food on a long flight because sometimes it doesn’t sit well with me