Plus snowboarding in The Alps
With the arrival of the Fishponds Voice it now take the readership directly to my parents door, which at least saves me the hassle of saving them a copy each month. Why they or anybody for that matter want to read my ramblings is still beyond me but it reminds me that my (now retired) parents used to work in Fishponds. It is likely that a number of people reading this blog in Fishponds would have been taught by my Parents at Whitefield School (as it was known, now it is the Bristol Met.) I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to any of these students that have been affected. My mum’s ability to crack the whip with my homework and my dad’s questionable sense of humour would undoubtedly leave students frazzled, if not a little dazed. The best bit of having teachers as parents however were definitely the ski trips. We were so lucky to grow up going on all of the ski trips that Whitefield went on. We went by plane and by coach to the Alps to all sorts of little resorts learning to ski on these long planks of iron. I remember when Snowboarding was invented and my brother and I tried it out. The boards were so hard to turn on that we just kept wiping out all the locals and getting shouted at so we quickly returned to skis. The next day full of confidence back on two planks my brother promptly skied into a stream. I still laugh now thinking about him waste deep in freezing cold water so angry that the water was steaming around him.
Back to the present, we just got back in one piece from our little ski trip to Morzine this year. For all of those who went before us with poor snow conditions over Christmas I am very sorry to tell you that we arrived into some of the best ski conditions I have ever seen…snow and sunshine all round! We even bumped into former England rugby fly half Toby Flood enjoying his retirement.
With regard to work we have increased the number of Pilates sessions available to accommodate the increased demand so please enquire if you would like to start Pilates in a small class of just 6 people with our highly qualified Physio Pilates instructor Chris at Next Step.
I also made a slight error purchasing coconut water drinks to sell at the clinic. I love coconut water. People tend to love or hate the taste, but I love it. I love the health benefits of coconut water. This latest craze in drinks started in the USA (as these things often do), where I first found it working with elite athletes that drank it. They were the first to realise that the nutrients inside coconut water were very similar to the well know ‘branded’ isotonic drinks except instead of being man-made synthetic nutrients, they were all natural, allowing the body to absorb them all easily. Thus coconut water has become the world’s top heralded healthy drink. What’s more it is zero fat, low in calories all round and has the same osmotic pressure as blood plasma, meaning that it can be safely administered intravenously! The error that I made is that I saw it on special offer at half price so I bought 14 boxes of cartons of my favorite brand Gococo. When they arrived I now understand that they were half price because the go past their sell by date in 2 months instead of the usual 12. So if anybody loves coconut water or fancies trying some for the first time please, please pop in and pick some great value, half price Gococo up from me in Cleve Chiropractic in Mangotsfield. Sorry for the obvious plug but I think it’s interesting health news as well.
Oh and Molly has started crawling. Everybody said that it was going to be a change, but I didn’t understand. She has become crazy, is this it? Is this what happens? They learn to crawl and go from being a little baby happy to sit and play to being a whirlwind who leaps towards danger with abandon. I feel like I have to defend the house from Molly. Things have definitely changed…now I understand…what happens when they can stand, walk and run?
Tim Button
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