From the pages of Swindon Link's sister publication The Ocelot comes Agony Girl in the form of ten-year-old Amy. We read her the questions and she tells us the answers. To ask Agony Girl a question yourself email us at [email protected] with 'Agony Girl' in the subject line.
Dear Agony Girl,
In a bit of a misguided moment I’ve recently signed up to a half marathon – any training tips?
K, Ridgeway Farm
Sign-up to do a one day coaching training day at my school and you get trained to train other people to keep their knees up. Go to a gym and use those rope things that you jiggle up and down and do laps around the park.
Dear Agony Girl,
Sometimes I get tired easily and sometimes feel like falling asleep.
Do you have any advice to keep me awake?
Tyler
Eats loads of Haribo Tangfastics. I like them.
Dear Agony Girl,
My daughter is 10 and doesn't like reading. Do you have any suggestions of books that she may enjoy so I can encourage her to read more?
Mandy, Abbeymeads
Buy her Lottie Brooks books because I really like them because they are like my life and they're funny and they have pictures.
Dear Agony Girl,
I am worried about the safety of my cat as he keeps climbing the tree in my back garden in highly optimistic attempts to capture birds.
I say 'highly optimistic' as he is well into middle age and so broad in the beam that he has never caught one in all the years I've known him and is never likely to. Indeed, many's the time I've seen sparrows, magpies and so on having a good laugh and waving their wings at him in what I can only assume is the birds' version of a rude gesture.
However, I am very fond of the cat and wouldn't want him to fall from the tree and hurt himself - not to mention concussing anybody he landed on.
Should I rig some sort of cat-proof netting round the trunk?
yours,
A Concerned cat owner
Get the entire net around the tree so if he falls he'll land and put some toys and blankets in it so he has got something to play with if he gets stuck in the netting.
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