HEALTH AND SAFETY

The exercise class I taught yesterday was one of the worst ones so far. There are still builders next door to the studio where I teach and clearly they are fed up now with trying to do “quiet” building. It just doesn’t work. So just as I had started the class with everybody lying down and with “mind and body” mood music playing, a loud drill started that sounded just like the one that gets into your head at the dentist.

So I had to leave the class and ask the manager to go and stop the noise because I was having to shout my instructions and it was really not helping with the overall relaxation levels. Noise temporarily abated. Then just as I had everybody back on track and doing some breathing exercises, half the contents of the chimney breast collapsed onto the floor and there was rubble and dust everywhere.

So after brushing off several clients and hoovering and wiping the floor and moving the position of the mats, I abandoned the idea of any more breathing excercises because everybody was now trying to hold their breath. I opened the windows and continued doing some stretching whilst trying to ignore the gale force wind coming in. Then a bee the size of a bus flew in to the room and bounced off the walls and isn’t it amazing how some people are terrified of bees? So more major disruption whilst we got the bee back outside and just as everything finally settles down again, the builders forgot that they were meant to be quiet and start the drill back up.

Tomorrow I am doing my 16 mile walk for a breast cancer charity. I have done no training. Rain has been predicted. It will be cold and wet and I am quite sure my toenails are going to fall off like last time. At 6.30am tomorrow morning when I get up I will be wondering what on earth I am doing.

Then I’ll get there and there will be 400 women all wearing bright pink T-shirts all walking for people they know. I’ve mentioned before that I know far too many women coping with breast cancer at the moment. The woman in our book group who had been doing amazingly well after all her chemotherapy treatment went back in to hospital to have her reconstructive surgery last week. She is now desperately ill in intensive care after contracting E.coli. She has been having fits and they have had to reopen her wounds and it all sounds truly hideous.

So when the going gets tough I will think of her lying in her hospital bed and just be very, very grateful that I am still able to complain about toenails falling off and that I am doing my little bit to help.

Wish me luck!!

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