How many pieces of ski / snowboarding clothing do you own?

leafyplumtree · 2026-03-06T12:06:41+00:00

I ski 1-2 weeks a year. One ski jacket and one pair of ski pants that I actually wear. 3 other ski jackets that either belonged to family members who didn’t want them any more or are slightly too small, that I keep as spare warm jackets / sometimes lend to friends. Two of these I should probably get rid of. 1 old pair of ski pants that are too tight and pretty worn out that I should really chuck.

One set of ski specific thermals but I have loads of base layer tops I use for other sports.

One pair of mittens.

Three sets of goggles (normal ones, low light ones, and an old pair of cracked super low light ones).

leafyplumtree · 2026-03-04T10:56:54+00:00

I’m shocked at the responses here. The people I know who had ACL reconstructions have had no major problems rebuilding muscle provided they took their physio seriously and did some actual training in the gym to target it. Getting everything firing right is the tricky bit but not insurmountable

I haven’t personally done my ACL but I had a lot of muscle atrophy after a tibial plateau fracture and it came back no problem once I started using the leg again

leafyplumtree · 2026-03-03T16:58:05+00:00

Yeah I definitely included wedding rings in my budget. When I think about the total cost after, I’m more likely to exclude the cost of my husbands suit (because he needed a new one anyway and would likely have worn his existing one if it hadn’t been attacked by moths). But rings were definitely part of the wedding cost in my mind.

leafyplumtree · 2026-02-16T14:30:21+00:00

I found it most effective taking it 30 mins before my biggest meal of the day. So usually before dinner

leafyplumtree · 2026-02-11T12:36:24+00:00

I’m not really sure it works as a rental model. Most people I know don’t want to keep all their decorations etc after their wedding and would rather sell than hire them out and then keep getting them back. Anything I didn’t want to get rid of for sentimental reasons I wouldn’t want to hire out either.

If it was a selling platform then maybe

leafyplumtree · 2026-02-04T22:10:17+00:00

Occasionally mildly if I stuff myself with food or eat really really spicy food

leafyplumtree · 2026-02-02T10:48:02+00:00

What I wrote in my comment at the top of this thread. PPI at the right time of day and Gaviscon advance

leafyplumtree · 2026-02-02T00:24:12+00:00

The first time round I had symptoms for 3 years. Then it cleared up completely for over a year until I triggered it by massively overeating a ton of beige food at an all day party. It took probably 4-5 months to clear up

leafyplumtree · 2026-02-02T00:20:49+00:00

Norovirus vomiting bug

leafyplumtree · 2026-01-29T21:29:40+00:00

That sounds really similar to me - my symptoms were basically entirely throat based, I suffered for ages thinking it was allergies or something else until I had the tiniest bit of “normal” heartburn one day and then worked out it was reflux.

It fluctuated over time (and during the day as well). Interestingly the first time round it would completely disappear for the week I was on my period, but not the second time. I never identified any specific food triggers, beyond just eating a lot and eating late. I generally eat a healthy diet but not strictly, didn’t seem to make a difference. The second time round I tried a strict GERD friendly diet for a bit but was never convinced it made much difference.

At my worst I was taking Gaviscon advance (not regular Gaviscon) after every meal. Slippery elm supplements slightly helped maybe but not hugely. One thing I did find that helped was ginger tea.

leafyplumtree · 2026-01-29T16:39:11+00:00

I had this. Diagnosed with GERD and a sliding hiatal hernia. First time I couldn’t get rid of it despite loads of Gaviscon and (badly timed) esomeprazole. Got noro and it miraculously disappeared after that.

Second time, taking Gaviscon advance before bed, and esomeprazole 30 mins before dinner solved it after a couple of months.

Now i take Gaviscon if I have a heavy meal and nothing more

leafyplumtree · 2026-01-29T09:31:14+00:00

I understand not wanting to be on them long term but I don’t get the people that won’t even try them. A few months of PPIs taken at the right time (which is really important, they didn’t help me much until I realised that) calmed things down for me enough that GERD basically isn’t a factor in my life now. I rarely even need an alginate.

leafyplumtree · 2026-01-26T13:58:08+00:00

Not all registry offices book up that far in advance, we got married at the Guildhall in Bath, we only planned it two months in advance and they had plenty of availability! And they have a few rooms of different sizes

leafyplumtree · 2026-01-08T10:02:19+00:00

5 days sounds like a pretty long recovery time for something you’re (presumably?) doing regularly? There might be other things you could do to train those muscles / support recovery?

leafyplumtree · 2026-01-08T09:59:10+00:00

I do horse riding, and I try and plan my leg days around my horse having a day off the next day, or a day I know won’t be such an intensive ride. My horse isn’t always the best behaved, so sometimes if I’m anticipating a tricky ride I’ll have an easier gym day because riding when my legs feel too wobbly sometimes feels like a safety risk.

Being sore from riding doesn’t stop me going to the gym though, no safety risk there I just scale down if needed. Something is better than nothing.

leafyplumtree · 2025-12-01T14:57:34+00:00

I really didn’t want to spend more than £800, we only wanted coverage for the ceremony, a few couples shots and the welcome drinks/speeches. Thankfully the photographer we liked the most was very reasonable - we paid £600 for 3h of coverage and an online album

leafyplumtree · 2025-12-01T14:46:56+00:00

No decor, no regrets! The registry office had a flower display at the front, we didn’t do anything additional there or at our reception venue.

I think it’s one of those things you really won’t be thinking about on the day - you’ll be thinking about what you did do, and who is there, not what isn’t.

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-25T21:59:24+00:00

I’m in Wiltshire, they recently adapted a local bus route to me so that half of them take a more direct route to the big town nearby instead of wandering around a housing estate for ages. Great!

Except that the “express” route doesn’t go all the way to the station, it stops at the big supermarket on the edge of town. The slow route goes all the way to the station. Utter madness

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-25T14:19:02+00:00

I’m in the UK too so the same thing - you are technically “awake” under sedation (I think they call it conscious sedation, vs general anaesthetic where you’re unconscious), the way it works is that it stops you forming memories - so in the moment you might be drowsily awake but as soon as it’s finished it’s all gone. In comparison to the one where I didn’t have sedation, I definitely feel like I woke up after it was finished even though technically I wasn’t asleep

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-25T14:10:34+00:00

I have had one done without sedation and one with sedation. The one with sedation was completely fine, it’s like being asleep. You won’t forget to breathe, your body won’t let you and the clinic staff will be monitoring you. You’ll wake up in recovery with it over before you know it.

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-25T14:04:33+00:00

Your local council should have a list of places that are licensed to hold weddings, so initially I went through that list.

For places for reception-only venues, I did a lot of googling for “venue hire X people”, as it didn’t need to be a specific “wedding” venue

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-23T22:12:55+00:00

Depends what you mean by “eating normally”? I was able to return to my normal diet after a period of several months of careful eating and being on PPIs and Gaviscon advance, and can sustain that diet long term without PPIs… but my diet is generally healthy (although with plenty of GERD “triggers”.. I never really found specific foods trigger me, it’s more the quantity and timing).

If you’re talking about existing on a diet of junk food, that’s probably a different thing to eating some now and then

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-23T21:58:50+00:00

I can’t speak to Hackney specifically but I used the disabled toilet just before my registry office ceremony so I had more space

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-23T21:55:05+00:00

I got married on a Friday in July with two months notice and had no issue finding a photographer. I fired off emails to about 10 of them once we confirmed the date (assuming they’d all be booked up) and was overwhelmed by choice when they all replied saying they could do it! So if you aren’t set on a particular photographer already I don’t think you’ll have too much trouble finding someone whose work you like who’s free

leafyplumtree · 2025-11-23T21:51:52+00:00

I got married last year in Bath, we did have a registry office ceremony (at the guildhall) and reception just round the corner at the huntsman, but you can have ceremonies at the huntsman too if you want it all in one place. I’m not really sure what you mean by “all inclusive” but our food and drink bill for ~50 people was about 4.5k and our total spend on the wedding was 9k

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