Good morning all. Chey I’m glad you went with bestie and I hope things will improve for you soon. Apparently it’s getting cooler by Thursday. Lily I hope oh enjoys his Pilates. Hope it helps. Runny hope oh is feeling a little better today. Sending my best wishes to you both. Just having a cup of tea and watching Victoria Derbyshire on the beeb.
My sister does Pilates and it seems to be anything but gentle but she has been doing it for some time so maybe she is at advanced level. My sis-in-law does t'ai chi which seems from reports to be a lot more gentle.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Thank you Chive, Rubee and LB. LB, this one is a very gentle one organised through the hospital and run by a physiotherapist from the hospital. Some of it is sitting in a chair and some standing. Know what you mean about the normal Pilates......looks quite exhausting 😉😧😕
Phew SGL, that is a relief. I've looked at some of the movements my sister makes and it makes me feel weak at the knees just watching her. Its such a positive thing for your OH and I'm sure he will gain many benefits from it.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Morning - mild and sunny out there so I may go and do some more compost digging and mulching in a bit. Well done in the quiz LB - middle of the field is ok.
I suspect I'd do really badly in pub quizzes - sport and (modern) pop culture are really not my thing. I get quite cross when I can't get answers on Only Connect because the link is some electronic game or TV programme I've never even heard of let alone watched. Now I sound like my grandmother - ho hum...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Afternoon all. Dry and no wind so I have weeded and tidied up some of the patio pots. My hands are toes are freezing so that's me for the day. It's nice to see some new growth appearing.
My pop tune days are from the late 50s into the 60s so no chance in a pub or any other type of quiz.
Years back I used to go with my brother in law - a strapping, stocky, muscular specimen - and me a weedy, sunken chested, knocked knee'd wimp.
At one session, the main activity was to learn a new defence against attack that comprised of kicking the inside of each thigh of the attacker to 'splay' their legs, before dropping to the ground whilst hooking your foot behind one of the now splayed knees - effectively making the attacker drop like a stone. The move was then finished by then kicking with the other leg to the attacker's head/nose. All done in one smooth move. Sounds simple....looked simple when the Senseis showed it. So off we all go to practise.
I'm the attacker having a go at my BIL. But we're boith a bit namby-pamby - not wanting to hurt each other - but we're playing along, and giggling, like good little boys and trying to get the moves right when Mr Sensei comes over to check on our progress.
'Not quite sure I get it totally' pipes up my BIL.
'No problem - just watch again' says mr Sensei with an evil glint in his eye and grabbing me to be his assailant.
'Just come at me ...' says Mr Sensei stroking his white cat.
'Thwack', 'thwack' - two kicks to the inside of my lower thighs and I was as bow-legged as Randolph Scott...in comes the 'hooking' foot as the Sensie drops to his side, taking me down like a sack of spuds - and the sense of the air moving as his foot, moving at 1 trillion miles an hour, stopped a micron away from the bridge of my nose.
All I recalled seeing was my BIL pee'ing himself laughing, tears rolling down his cheeks.
'Get that? See how it works now?' inquired the gloating Sensei.
'Not sure still - I missed the bit where you splayed the legs ...' sniggers my BIL.
'Noooooooooooo' screams I as the Sensei lined me up again for another demo......
Never had knocked knees again. Took six weeks for the bruising to go and lots of explaining to my wife.
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LB, this one is a very gentle one organised through the hospital and run by a physiotherapist from the hospital. Some of it is sitting in a chair and some standing.
Know what you mean about the normal Pilates......looks quite exhausting 😉😧😕
Well done in the quiz LB - middle of the field is ok.
I suspect I'd do really badly in pub quizzes - sport and (modern) pop culture are really not my thing. I get quite cross when I can't get answers on Only Connect because the link is some electronic game or TV programme I've never even heard of let alone watched.
Now I sound like my grandmother - ho hum...
My pop tune days are from the late 50s into the 60s so no chance in a pub or any other type of quiz.