Monday 29 November 2021

Monday

 Morning, everyone.  The start of another new week with various excitements looming in a few days.  I can't wait - but I will have to!  It's still jolly chilly, is expected to warm up briefly and then gat colder again.  I guess it's what one should expect in winter.

The Contemporary Dance class yesterday was really good.  If you've ever watched the yearly World Ballet classes, you will know what I mean when I say it was a few much simplified barre exercises and a very little bit of simple floor work.
It made me realise that, although very much improved, my calves and ankles aren't back to full strength and has given me some ideas for daily work on them.  Walking on my toes was virtually impossible!
Definitely one to do next week (assuming it is on again).

Since I lost such shedloads of weight, I'm feeling the cold much more than before and there's a limit to how much one can turn the heating up.
So I have splashed out and bought a heated fleece made by the same company as my electric blanket which I am very pleased with.
I only ordered it on Saturday and it arrived yesterday which seems remarkable speedy.  Given it's so cold, I tried it out straight away and it is brilliant.  Heats up quickly and is very soft and comfortable.  I look upon it as an early Christmas present to myself!

A correction or two:  Beth's tum is fine, she has a very sore throat but she is definitely covid negative and the new variant is not here, it's further south in Brentwood.  Still too close for comfort but not just round the corner.

On to today and I should be going to Lindsey's for circuit training.  However, her poor husband is covid positive which has really put the cat among the pigeons for her.  Lindsey herself has tested negative but is delivering as many classes as possible - large group, small group and one to one, online for a few days.  Poor love, she really could have done without this.  R isn't actually poorly as such just, as Lindsey puts it, 'very snotty'!  So circuits is online today and I've said I am happy for Personal Training to be online this week too.

Later on, it's tuition as usual.  That should be fun.

To finish, Beth posted this on Facebook yesterday.  I think it's brilliant and a reminder that we do not this lovely world.  Take care, stay safe and be positive.


"The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage,
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
Is the same moment the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can’t breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
Climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round."
~ Margaret Atwood

10 comments:

  1. I used to go to Keep Fit classes in Nairobi when we were there in the seventies, they were run by a ballet teacher and based on ballet movements. I really enjoyed them and never felt so fit before or since, sadly it all stopped when we came back.

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    1. That's a shame. Even the simplest things that this class did felt like a good workout.
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  2. What a lovely poem! Thank you for sharing it. I'm glad you have lovely things to look forward to. Our house is all decorated for Christmas and I'm enjoying the more gentle days now after traveling recently to visit and help ill family members. It is always good to get back "home."

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    1. It is, I agree. There's just no place quite like home, especially when done up for Christmas.
      xx

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  3. It's still cold here. I'm glad you enjoyed the contemporary ballet. xx

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    1. It was surprised how challenging it was. Now I am looking forward to the next session, hopefully.
      xx

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  4. Margret Atwood writes some lovely prose. I am glad that the new variant hasn't gotten close to you.

    God bless.

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    1. It will though. It's spreading rapidly!
      Margaret Attwood is Beth's favourite author. She really does have a way with words.
      xx

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  5. So nice to see you quoting a Canadian author. She is an icon in her own country.

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    1. I can well imagine she is - she is a very gifted person.
      xx

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