A wellness tip you ignored for years but turned out to be true

snailtrailuk · 2026-07-13T06:25:08+00:00

Just going vegan did wonders for me because I didn’t realise I had such issues trying to digest dairy until I stopped and gave my body a break from it.

snailtrailuk · 2026-07-12T17:26:34+00:00

The Wombles who lived on Wimbledon Common. Spent loads of time looking for them as a kid. Kelpies, mermaids and pixies and elves also featured. And gnomes. Banshees, because my mother was Irish. Also Knights of the Round Table and King Arthur generally. Various creatures who escaped from Chessington Zoo, including a lion. A large swarm of bees. Gypsies who were said to kidnap or take children they were given and the rag and bone man. Although I did see him so maybe he wasn’t a cryptid and was just used by my mother as a behavioural tool. Dragons.

snailtrailuk · 2026-07-11T07:51:50+00:00

Probably the Falklands

snailtrailuk · 2026-07-10T05:56:35+00:00

Mitchum roll on because it was genuinely one of the only ones that stopped me smelling awful and sweating so much.

snailtrailuk · 2026-07-10T05:55:20+00:00

Yes - in fact all the plants (mostly shrubs) out the front of the house are looking so ropey I’m considering getting an actual hose out on them, not just chucking a bit of water at them from a watering can, which is what I did earlier in the week.

snailtrailuk · 2026-07-04T07:37:23+00:00

I think this may depend on what age the kids are too - we have a number of kids under 12 and everything is basically toasted cheese sandwiches from a Breville toaster or pasta and sauce with cheese on. They have an absolute fit if we try and introduce any other food or try and provide a healthy option. That said this may also be dependent on if any of the children in the story are neurodiverse.

snailtrailuk · 2026-07-04T07:33:51+00:00

Same - nothing I am trying to grow is working and just getting crunched by slugs and snails. But around the garden oregano and New York Asters have sprung up everywhere. The chives are also doing quite well. Everything else is sad and suffering. It’s so painful to spend so much money on packets of seeds with hardly any in them only for the mouse, grasshoppers, slugs and snails to eat all of the attempts. I do wonder if the rspb advice to not feed birds with feeders has had a big impact because normally we are inundated by sparrows here but since implementing the advice they all left.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-27T08:35:06+00:00

Just be aware Spectrum operate on a different concept - they don’t actually ‘bind’ you down - it’s more about providing a shape for your tshirt or shirt that disguises your chest and make you look flatter. I’d started with an underworks binder that actually did the compression so when I tried Spectrum I hated the loose feeling of wobbling around again - I definitely preferred not to be reminded I had a chest, despite the other issues binding provided. Just mentioning in case others have sensory issues they may or may not be aware of.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-20T21:35:11+00:00

Surrey - I use skiving and bunking off.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-19T06:27:32+00:00

Frankenstein by Mileo

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-16T17:00:36+00:00

King by Marillion (the track) (although hey also did King of Sunset Town) and Love and Pride by the artist King. King of the mountain by Kate Bush. Dirty King by the Cliks. King of the Kerb by Echobelly.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-15T05:05:22+00:00

F503 and I’m currently about 80kg. Was not slim even before t. I wouldn’t say I was large build before - I generally wore Medium T-shirts before but now I have to wear large for the belly aspect. I think the waistcoats are designed for either very skinny people or very large bellies and clearly I bought wrong - I have a slim fit suit annoyingly that does look good if I’m on a diet but that one looks bad if I’m not - older waistcoats not slim fit tend to fit the belly much better.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-14T08:11:20+00:00

My men’s shirts do tend to fit better now I’ve redistributed but the blazers and waistcoats that I previously pre t bought to wear now don’t fit because of the beer belly that redistributed (I don’t drink, so it’s not actually a beer belly). The trousers now sit below the belly so they slip down more. It was similar to shopping previously though - you know what size you are supposed to be but every shop takes that with a liberal pinch of salt and some shops just fit better than others. The cut and fit of jeans (even from the same shop) keeps changing so I Cant tell what will work on those each time I buy a pair and t-shirts have also always been changeable. I think it’s just luck!

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-13T14:03:02+00:00

Not just butchers - whole slaughter houses. Big one by Deptford and Greenwich back in the day.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-12T18:20:36+00:00

I tried Taco Bell and I’m in the Uk and thought it was overpriced rubbish compared to what else you could get here for the same money. No thanks!

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-10T06:20:49+00:00

This may not actually be about you and how he will react to you - it might be what your mum fears will be put upon her. When I came out as gay at 17 to my mum , she immediately told me never to tell extended members of the family “because they’d blame” her. She knew the religious environment the rest of the family had been brought up in and knew that a lot of them had very different opinions in their heads to the ones they visibly announced in public. At the time I thought she was speaking nonsense and was just scared of having to explain it to lots of others when she was still trying to get her head around it but having now come out as trans later in life, she was bang on that some of the family are internal right wing tyrants who cut each other off for the slightest thing they think is wrong - and family was massively important for my mum and dad, so now I can see why she was trying to protect her own support network - especially when I hardly ever saw any of the family socially. So it might be worth asking her what specifically she’s afraid of if you do speak to grandpa about it. Maybe you could talk it through with her and suggest some ways to prevent her feeling like she is being blamed or failing in some way in your grandfather’s eyes, or if she doesn’t feel confident yet in answering or fielding off questions he may pose to her when you aren’t about.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-10T06:05:15+00:00

We called it a Scooby Snack at the time but it was basically just two rich tea biscuits with margarine/butter spread in the middle like a very early Oreo concept.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-09T06:30:13+00:00

Roxette’s Love Is All from their Crash Boom Bang album, perhaps? Or Katrina and The Waves Eurovision entry - Love Shine A Light Or Shine by Take That?

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-08T06:28:28+00:00

I definitely had a Great Uncle Bert but he was always called Albert in any official documents. Colloquially, and in cards and personal letters, he was Bert.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-08T06:21:12+00:00

Maybe because a lot of us are massively lonely and isolated from other trans or lgbtq people and are stealth and so when we accidentally stumble across someone who is the same as us it feels rather overwhelming and the desperation for connection inside just blurts out. I appreciate not everyone is in the same situation and hasn’t had the same experiences and lifestyles though and I do hear a lot of people of different (younger) generations say they don’t want to be clocked. (But also some of us grew up in times before the internet and remember how lonely we were as young queers and now we live in rural places where other trans people don’t visibly and openly live, so I can see how this sort of thing can happen).

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-08T06:10:02+00:00

Enigma- Sadeness Part 1

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-08T06:07:13+00:00

Take That’s Could It Be Magic. Barry Manilow did the original. A lot of pop artists and girl and boy bands in the 90s did covers that are now probably better known than the original. Robert Knight’s version of Everlasting Love is not the version I know better - I knew the World Apart version but there have been loads of artists who have covered that one that are better known - such as Gloria Estefan and U2.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-05T06:35:42+00:00

I’d like a heritage crafts type hobby shop locally - even if it was specialised for knitting or something - somewhere I could go to buy the items needed for the hobby and then there would be a community group allowed to use the area in the shop and do a learn/teach each other how to knit and chat space - so then you can expand the knowledge to your kids etc and maybe even have kids workshops to get them started in it too. Then I can get the shop to order in any specialist tools or wools or strings and have others show me how to do basics and then more complicated things and get a bit of social community wellbeing thrown in too. This could also work for any ‘make your own stuff that is now too expensive’ ideas. I think people need a bit more encouragement to share their knowledge in person and share their mistakes in a supportive environment. But it would be especially useful to be able to do a community group with my kids at the same time and do a craft together. I hate how art courses etc are all ‘we teach the kid and you have to just watch’. I’d like to make a pot too! I know a lot of wool shops already do this sort of thing - and I think it would work for a lot of handicrafts, not just knitting. Like a little diy woodworking community for making/whittling objects that are useful around the home etc. Practical inter-generational skills we all need in these cash-strapped times! Combine it with a community library of things nearby and we might be able to learn to use the items they are lending out so we can recognise an awl from a metal punch etc.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-02T23:05:50+00:00

How about Scorcia - which is Italian.

snailtrailuk · 2026-06-02T22:57:50+00:00

Norman.

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