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Seven Feet Apart are a trainer brand with a difference, another one, well in their case they have a great background story and a total unique selling point. With a heritage tracing as far back as the industrial revolution, they pair prime Italian leather with ingenious British engineering to offer a product which focuses on comfort and built to last. Plus, at the same time their ethos around the entire business aims to create lasting chance, in that they believe high value can come at a fair price and each shoes leaves a meaningful footprint in the world.

Basically, they have taken the humble but classic tennis shoe and deconstructed each aspect to rebuild a trainer with a unique seven layers of comfort. The original 172 is hand made with the finest Italian calf leather. Each pair comes with gold tipped fat laces and a confident simplicity with subtle stitched details and blind debossed logos.
The way they see it as the ever narrowing gap between fast fashion and premium brands offers little by way of comfort, quality and value, three little words which mean the world to this brand. They?ve done away with the traditional wholesaler model and work on a ?Maker Retailer? framework. Therefore they sell direct to the customer with a traceable process from block to box.

To work along this new way of thinking Seven Feet Apart have set up the This Mile Foundation so the brand grows in a way that is fair, affordable and kind.

It works likes this, each employee picks a project that?s within a mile from their home. The brand then gives, not only, seven per cent of net profits but seven per cent of time or 18 days per year to support that project. Therefore creating opportunities within their communities, encouraging, nurturing and supporting people who want to take a different path in life.

Hello, and welcome back to the Single Parent Round-up.

I love writing this Round-up and sharing posts from our community but I think it?s hard to get a good feel for the wonderful bloggers I feature and so with permission from Britmums, I have decided that alongside the usual Round-up format that we know and love, I will also choose a single parent blogger to feature in the Blogger Highlight. Single parent bloggers are more than just ?single parents? and write about so many different subjects whilst addressing the unique situation that some of us find ourselves in. 

This month, the blogger I have chosen to highlight is:

The Single Swan

The Single Swan is written by Pen. Not Pen, short for Penny, not Pen as in the thing you write with, but Pen, an anonymous pseudonym. 

At first, whenever I read her posts, I wondered who Pen was. She was experiencing similar emotions and facing similar problems that I had been, either then, or in the past. I found her blog just as she launched it in 2015. Her writing was so relatable and so good that after a while, I forgot that she was anonymous and now, I forget that I don?t know her, as her writing makes me feel as though I do.

 

A few people have asked me why I chose ?the single swan? for the name of my blog.  A few people have also asked me whether I am really called Pen.

Swans apparently are one of the few creatures, others being termites, beavers and pigeons who mate for life. Mating for life was my aspiration.  Although I left my ex, single motherhood was never my aim, never my ambition.  Having said that, I am okay with it.  In fact, when I think of the alternative, marrying my ex and struggling through the rest of my life slowly being extinguished, I am more than okay with my single mother status, I am actually pretty happy with it.  I am free again to choose my destiny.  I am rekindling that fire in my belly. 

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A single swan is called a pen, a male swan is called a cob, a baby swan is called a cygnet.

We are Pen and Cygnet.

She chose to be anonymous so that she could be as honest as possible whilst respecting the privacy of all involved. I envy her in this respect. I wish in some ways that I had done the same and started another blog to document the really hard parts of being a single parent ? we all know that there are many of them.

Pen writes about life in general ? the exhibitions or museums she visits when Cygnet is with his Father, Music, Days out with her son and she doesn?t ignore the big topics such as Brexit, Mental Health and Sex.

One of her posts about life in general is a very recent one ? it resonates with me and will with many a parent, single or not. This is The Rush Hour of Our Lives 

One of my favourite post?s is Sex as a Single Mother. Not only has she written a post that feels as though she plucked the words from my head, she has described the feelings and worries that so many of us have, in a way that makes you just want to high 5 her and say yes, that?s exactly it! 

I never hide the fact that I am a mother.  I always tell my dates before we meet that I have a child.

But, my dates haven?t seen the amazing things that I have done, that my body has done, all they can see is the scars, the battle lines and the lopsided breasts resembling empty socks.  Not sexy!

 

Pen doesn?t just write about serious subjects although I?m sure that some people take Tinder very seriously. I really enjoyed her post To The Men of Tinder, This is Why I Didn?t Reply as I laughed and nodded my way through it having found myself seeing the same things and receiving the same messages. You don?t need to be a single mum to relate to that one. 

The last post that I?ll share with you, before I urge you to go and check her blog out, is one from the archives, from 2015 and explains the gap in Cygnet?s baby book. You know the one, where you record birth details, first smiles, first teeth etc. It?s simply called, A Letter To My Son. 

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you next month.

Hannah. 

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Anyone who has ever watched The Walking Dead knows that death occurs as often as dialogue between the characters.

Loved characters get decapitated, eaten by zombies, or murdered by friends and enemies. The gory violent deaths are one of the most entertaining parts of the show and the writers have always done a great job of building up characters and emotional connections before bringing it all crumbling down with their sudden deaths.

After the events of Season 7 we’re now headed towards the major conflict from the comics known as All Out War, so it’s unlikely The Walking Dead is going to slow down anytime soon, or change its approach to violence and death.

The deaths shown on the show so far evoke all kinds of emotions. We?ve felt sad because characters we loved were killed, we?ve felt angry because characters we hate have killed people that were pretty cool, shock because some deaths were downright crazy graphic, and immense satisfaction when annoying characters we all hated finally met their match.

Be it by a human?s hand or a zombies mouth, here are the top deaths shown in The Walking Dead so far, which made fans worldwide tremble with emotion in front of their screens.

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If you?re of a certain age and disposition, one of your main concerns might be: when can I return to Morrowind and pretend the past fifteen years never happened? Steady on there, creaky clogs. I?m sure you know that The Elder Scrolls Online [official site] will launch its Morrowind expansion on Tuesday June 6th, and you have already stocked up on biscuits, but when on June 6th will the servers go live? 10am in the UK, Zenimax have confirmed, which is 2am Pacific, 11am Central European Time, and so on.

Unless you?ve bought the fancy expensive edition of TESO: Morrowind, in which case early access is already live for you to swan around with your few fellow millionaires.

Zenimax?s unlocking announcement has the times for other corners of the globe. For us in the UK, 10am gives plenty of time to eat a 2002 breakfast (Coco Shreddies), listen to some 2002 music (Sugababes or Atomic Kitten, or there?s always Nickelback), put on your 2002 togs, and settle down for a simpler life.

The Morrowind expansion adds the lands from The Elder Scrolls III to Zenimax?s MMORPG, see, along with all the quests and monsties and whatnot you?d expect from an MMO expansion.

When our Alec visited Vvardenfell in beta, he was whipped back in time and felt like he was home again ? with some reservations.

?Don?t get me wrong, there?s stuff I?m not keen on ? I haven?t enjoyed the dialogue, many of the respawning monsters incline towards the generic, character movement and combat feels a bit artificial and there?s a distracting layer of MMO metagame and microtransaction guff throughout ? yer archetypal ludonarrative dissonance, there (Drink! -Ed). For all that, I?m having a passably Elder Scrollsy experience in a prettied-up Vvardenfell, and right now that turns out to be exactly how I want to spend my time.?

The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind costs £30 as an expansion for existing players, or for newcomers Zenimax sell a £40 edition including the base game too. TESO dropped subscription fees years ago, remember, so that?s all you?ll pay. If you cannot wait and want to join in the early access antics, that?ll cost you £50 for the Collector?s Edition of the expansion.

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In just a few short weeks we’ll finally get to know whether Michelle is actually MJ, whether Peter Parker passes his try-out for The Avengers, and whether Tony Stark actually makes it with Aunt May. Because Spider-Man: Homecoming is on the very edge of release.

Even with a couple of pretty heavily spoilerific trailers already out there, we’re being promised more footage for the hotly anticipated MCU stand-alone, as there’s another trailer set for release.

According to Trailer-Track (and Sony India, though they’ve deleted the tweet), the final trailer for Homecoming will be released this Wednesday to capitalise on the Memorial Day holiday and no doubt to attach it to the release of Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 and Wonder Woman.

Quite what we’ll see in this final trailer remains to be seen, since we’ve already seen so much. It would make sense that we might get a look at the Tinkerer now that he’s been revealed in Empire’s new issue, and we might also get a little more of Peter’s school life rather than the focus on his clash with Vulture this time out too.

It may simply be that the final trailer is a recut of footage we’ve already seen, of course, but there’s still likely to be at least a little new footage in there for fans. And it’s unlikely any amount of spoiling would dent the predicted $130m opening weekend it’ll enjoy when it lands.

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I?ve amassed an arsenal of weapons that would make any medieval fantasy army jealous. Shiny daggers, magic staffs, elven bows, orcish cleavers ? my inventory is full to bursting. But the weapon I?ve used the most in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is somewhat less flashy: my right shoe.

It?s a first-person action game with role-playing elements. Or maybe it?s a kicking simulator, and a brilliant one at that. At its core it?s a game about booting baddies into spikes, into open fires, and off the tops of tall buildings to land with a crunch and a spray of red on the stones below.

You press F to kick, although I do it so much that I?ve bound it to my middle mouse button. Providing you?re close enough to something that your target can fall into, or off of, they?ll immediately ragdoll. For example, if you?re facing an enemy who is standing in front of a fire pit a kick will see them fly into the flames.

Every combat arena is designed to let you use your feet as much as possible. Whether you?re in town squares or ancient temples there are spike traps everywhere you look, waiting to pierce any enemies you kick their way. Flimsy planks hold up platforms of barrels and crates, and a quick kick will splinter them and send the debris tumbling down on the guards below, who are all too eager to get in the way.

It doesn?t even try to be subtle about its love of kicking. More than an hour into the game I climb a ladder onto a rooftop. Ahead of me is a guard looking down into an empty square. It?s perhaps a 50ft drop. Just in case I hadn?t got the hint the game flashes up with a tool tip ? ?Don?t forget you can kick your enemies off high ledges.? Thanks. For. That.

But I?m okay with the lack of elegance, because sticking the boot in never gets old. Enemies soar off of my foot as if blasted from a cannon, bouncing of walls, clattering through wooden crates and into other enemies. Few games can offer such a satisfying gimmick.

Combat turns into an an absurd puzzle that?s less about parrying blows and landing counters and more about lining enemies up with ledges. I spend half my time gradually kicking enemies into place before landing the final blow to send them flying off. It?s always worth the effort.

The janky physics are the icing on the shoe-shaped cake. Kick an enemy at the right angle and the floor might collapse beneath them, sending them tumbling through onto barrels below. Enemies often get stuck on each other or on the environments, twitching perpetually as their ?get up? animation loops. Not very polished, perhaps, but it?s fun to see how much chaos your foot can create.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic?s fluid melee combat was way ahead of its time, and it?s still worth playing today (you can get it for less than a fiver on Steam). But the reason I?ve returned to it through the years is not its sword and shield battles ? it?s for the thrill of punting a goblin in the face.

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Not since Michael Schumacher?s 2001 triumph has Ferrari scored a win at Monaco. But this 16-year win-less streak is hardly unprecedented for Ferrari.

Schumacher?s 1997 win was Ferrari?s first victory at the track since Gilles Villeneuve?s victory 16 years earlier. Prior to that they went 20 years without a Monaco Grand Prix win between 1955 (Maurice Trintignant) and 1975 (Niki Lauda). What are their chances of ending that streak this weekend?

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Rosberg was the last winner from pole in 2015For obvious reasons, the tight and narrow Monaco track is often thought of as a circuit where you have to qualify on pole position to win the race. This wasn?t true for the two most recent winners, but all bar one 11 races prior to that were all won by the driver who qualified on pole position.

That 11-year span includes two races where Schumacher could have started on pole position but didn?t. He was sent to the back of the grid in 2006 after setting the fastest time during Q3 and stopping on the racing line in a bid to prevent other drivers from improving their time. Title rival Fernando Alonso therefore took pole position and went on to claim victory.

Six years later Schumacher was quickest in Q3 for the one and only time during his spell at Mercedes. But a five-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Bruno Senna at the previous race meant Mark Webber inherited pole position, and won.

Had Schumacher started that race from pole it?s likely Mercedes won have won the last five Monaco Grands Prix. Instead they arrive in Monte-Carlo with four consecutive wins to their name including three in a row by Nico Rosberg plus Lewis Hamilton?s second career win at the track last year.

McLaren hold the record for the most consecutive wins at Monaco with a streak of six in a row which started in 1988. Only Ayrton Senna?s 1987 win for Lotus kept McLaren from monopolising the top step for a full decade from 1984 to 1993.

The team will be without top driver Fernando Alonso this weekend as he has chosen to race in the Indianapolis 500 instead. He will start that race from fifth on the grid, which is only two places higher than the sensational seventh he achieved at the Circuit de Catalunya last week. Alonso will have gone three years without completing a full F1 season, as he sat out the 2015 Australian and 2016 Bahrain Grands Prix due to injury.

Jenson Button will therefore make a one-off return to the cockpit. The 2009 Monaco Grand Prix winner will start his 306th race and tie with Schumacher as the driver with the second-highest number of grand prix starts. Button will need to come back for a full season to beat Rubens Barrichello?s record of 322.

How Button will fare on his return will be a point of considerable interest. His team mate Stoffel Vandoorne is yet to out-qualify Fernando Alonso so far this year. Kimi Raikkonen, Lance Stroll and Jolyon Palmer are also yet to out-qualify their team mates in 2017.

Lap times

The Tabac corner was re-profiled in 2015 so we only have two years of comparable lap time data for Monaco.

Overtaking

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Overtaking is a rarity at Monaco. Last year?s rain-hit race was unusual.

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What?s that saying again? Oh yes, happy parents = happy children. What do you think? It all sounds terribly simple doesn?t it, but I do believe that there is an element of truth in there. Not enough to solve the ?no green veggies past these lips? phase perhaps, but on the whole I?ve noticed that the happies tend to be catching. And little ones tend to catch everything, don?t they!

So, this month is all about celebrating you and the things that have made you happy. Here are some of my top reads that will leave you laughing, crying and nodding along with glee.

Someone?s Mum ? The reason I burst into tears in my son?s future school this morning

Starting school for the first time is huge. I don?t know about you but I?m thoroughly petrified knowing that September is getting closer by the second. But what if your little one is extra special and needs a bit of support. What if knowing that your little ones future school understands this, is really everything. *You may need your tissues for this one.

  

Mummy Times Two ? The small things are important

Life?s a beach, especially when it has helped to inspire you to find joy in the little things.

Family Fever ? 10 things that make me happy

Have you seen this happy tag? It?s a fun excuse to list 10 things that make you a happy bunny. Give it a go yourself and let me know how you get on. The sky?s the limit as Kate demonstrates from empty washing baskets to cheeky Chinese takeaways.

Maflingo ? My new job starts today and I?m ready for it!

We know that it?s the little things that make our hearts flutter, but what about the biggies? There?s something so satisfying when everything falls into place as if by fate.

All The Beautiful Things ? I am proud to be a nurse

If you are lucky enough to have found your calling in life, then you will know that every day is a reason to rock that smile and show off your happies, loud and proud.  

Rhyming With Wine ? The stat race

And finally, here?s food for thought. Are you in the blog stat race? It?s hard not to be isn?t it? Even when you think you?re not, somehow you actually are. This brilliant post takes us on a roller-coaster ride of emotions and back to where it all began. Happiness.  

Thanks for joining us for this month?s BritMums Happiness Round-up. If you would like to share a post for consideration, please email me at [email protected] or pop along to link up to the #DreamTeam linky which runs every Tuesday.

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