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Alternative title: when the right thing to do is the painful thing

Welcome to this week’s roundup of three things I’ve been enjoying, and some chat about what’s on my mind. This week, I’m thinking about painful choices (this is a long newsletter and some email services will cut it off - you can always read online or through the app).

• 🩳 Happystride jazzy running shorts. These are just excellent. Their ‘classic’ shorts have a flowy top layer and a stretchy cycling-short like inner layer. The main thing: they do not get thigh-gobbled 🦃 !!!! I have them in this ‘pretty petal’ print and in ‘we like to party’, which reminds me of 90s duvet covers. I got complimented on the floral ones by a 4-year-old girl a couple of weeks ago (the ultimate fashion judges), and I wore them yesterday for a 10 mile hike in perfect comfort. Currently you can use code INSTA15 for 15% off everything. Go mad!

• 📕 Night Shift by Annie Crown (ad - Amazon affiliate link). I was a little wary about this book - some of its comparison titles were books I’ve started and DNF’d - but it was 99p on Kindle, so I thought it was worth a shot. Very much so! It’s a steamy, opposites-attract, campus romance. Great fun.

• 📸 Camp Snap camera. I was fully influenced into buying this by Niamh of Wimperis Embroidery - it’s a little point-and-shoot digital camera that behaves just like the cheap little film camera I had when I was 10. The key difference though is that I can just get the photos off by plugging it into my laptop (how retro!) and it can hold a couple of thousand photos, so I don’t need to worry about running out of film. I have the ‘vintage’ filter installed, and it’s just a joy to carry along when hiking or on day trips, without worrying about using up my phone battery, or getting distracted by a notification. I guess it’s like a Kindle but for taking photos, in that way?

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