If it's you're first one I recommend Dorney Lake, it's completely flat and car-free so it feels very safe. I did my first one there this year and it was great, much more fun than running races for some reason.

Sorry you have to deal with that. My cousin is a psychiatrist who prescribes Ozempic for depression, if the depression is related to body image. It's shocking that this seems to be standard, especially on the NHS.

Yes! Despite all the apparent reverence for collaboration, it's an almost purely competitive environment. After you leave you realise just how toxic (and antithetical to useful research) it all is.

I'd only heard her Don't Dream It's Over cover before, but there's a whole album's worth of great covers out there!

Listened to this about 20 times since you posted it, so good!

I have so many violets in my garden but had no idea the leaves were edible!