Help!\u00a0 Please, help me!<\/p>\n
My body appears to have been taken over by an alien force.\u00a0 Either that or I am very, very sick, indeed.<\/p>\n
You see….\u00a0 this morning I went to Zumba!\u00a0 Yes, you did read that correctly.\u00a0 And afterwards I had a swim and aquarobics workout.\u00a0 Yes, me!\u00a0 The woman who has a severe allergic reaction to physical exercise (well not ALL physical exercise, obviously!).\u00a0 I decided on zumba because I like dancing.\u00a0 I went along with the Sister, who is extremely fit and as those of you who know us can confirm, is half my size.\u00a0 There were eight of us in the class, most of the others\u00a0my age group and all of them the Sister’s size.\u00a0 Still, Sam the instructor was very welcoming and she said if I liked dancing then Idl like zumba.\u00a0 And then she put on the Latin music – ole ole ole!\u00a0 And off we went!!<\/p>\n
Well, we did grapevines and salsa steps and\u00a0pelvic thrusts and hip girations and cha cha steps all with Flamenco and Sevillana arms and I was loving it.\u00a0 And then the music ended, so I picked up my bottle and water and went to leave, only to discover that that had been only the warm-up!\u00a0 There was another fifty minutes to go!!<\/p>\n
Well, I did what I could.\u00a0 Actually, I thought I kept up quite well all things considered.\u00a0 I only had to stop and just mark time twice – once for ten minutes and once for twenty!\u00a0 No!\u00a0 That’s not true!\u00a0 I did mark time twice but when jumps were involved and I actually really enjoyed the cha cha cha to Under the Boardwark, which served as the cool-down.<\/p>\n
Sam congratulated me and encouraged by her words, I will return.\u00a0 I then went down to the pool and did another\u00a0forty-five minutes\u00a0of aquarobics and swimming.<\/p>\n
I am now aching all over – especially my glutes.\u00a0 And when you’ve got a bum the size of mine, that’s a whole load of pain believe me!\u00a0 I had to pop into Tesco on the way home and although I only needed four items had to take a trolley so that I could lean on it to help me round.\u00a0 Still, from little acorns and all that!\u00a0 This could be the start of something big!<\/p>\n
And on the way home from Tesco I heard the sad news on the radio of the death of Margaret Thatcher and as I’m writing this I’ve got the BBC News Channel on in the background.\u00a0 Now, I am not really a political animal and certainly am not a political commentator but there are a few things I want to say: The BBC are at a loss, of course.\u00a0 As an institution filled with left-wing, Thatcher-hating\u00a0dinosaurs they want to show their elation and are trying hard to find those who want to speak ill of her but most people are only making positive contributions.\u00a0 Even Paddy Ashdown has just said she was “probably the best Prime Minister in modern times.”\u00a0 Blair has said “She was a Titan.”\u00a0 Indeed she was; especially against a Pygmy like him.\u00a0 She cared about her country and she wanted people to stand on their own two feet.\u00a0 How different from the Blair years when we had a Prime Minister who saw his position as a\u00a0way of catapulting himself and his hideous wife into\u00a0extreme wealth and privilege and when\u00a0our country turned into the sorry shadow of itself that it is today.\u00a0 You can’t help but wonder if the huge, fragile male egos of her Cabinet – Lawson, Howe and Heseltine –\u00a0hadn’t been so huge and fragile – I have experience of working with a male with a huge, fragile ego and it’s not easy! – would we now be in the sorry state we find ourselves.<\/p>\n
And some of the comments that have appeared on Facebook and the like are sad and sick and sound like an out-dated rant from the Communist Party Handbook circa 1965.\u00a0 The woman has DIED.\u00a0 And these comments say much more about those posting them than they ever could about Thatcher herself.<\/p>\n
Whatever you might think about her – love her or hate her – nobody can take from her the fact that she was the UK’s first female Prime Minister and she won THREE landslide elections and was never defeated at the ballot box.\u00a0 If only more women looked upon her as a role model instead of the so-called “celebrities” that we hear so much of now.\u00a0 RIP Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Help!\u00a0 Please, help me! My body appears to have been taken over by an alien force.\u00a0 Either that or I am very, very sick, indeed. You see….\u00a0 this morning I went to Zumba!\u00a0 Yes, you did read that correctly.\u00a0 And … Continue reading