One of the many positive things that came out of our 30 day challenge was a long list of book recommedations. I was preparing to share it with you and I then saw this post on facebook and wanted to share that too as I think it is such a brilliant idea. Bring on a night of chocolate and reading. I think we should embrace it now more than ever as our socialiasing is a bit restricted. It sounds idyllic!!

The books that were recommended were

The Thursday Murder club by Richard Osman

Amercian Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

True Grit by Bear Grylls

Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan

Grief is a thing with feathers by Max Porter

The Woman in the white Kimono by Ana Johns

Home Stretch by Graham Norton

Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng

The Lying life of adults and My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari

Grown Ups by Marianne Keys

Feel free to ping over your book ideas and I will share them!

Thank you to all those who took part in the challenge and I am delighted to announce our lucky winners are

Highball Cocktails - Anne Evans

Oh So Chocolate - Louise Coulbeck

Elizabeth's Daughter - Lisa Ashworth

Manns Cookies - Sally Kelly.

The Kitchen Social - Carol Mathieson

Knackered Mother's Wine Club - Victoria Hopper

Juliet's Pilates - Julia Busch Hansen

It was lovely to get so many messages and I am really thrilled to hear so many of you enjoyed taking part. I really hope you are able to keep up those new habits!!! Lots of you have said that you plan to and I am really happy to hear that and wish you luck. I am biased as a lifleong bookworm but I think sitting down to read every day is a must!!!

So today the new system takes over - if you have not yet set your account then please do now in order to be able to access all the membership content.  I hope you will agree that once you are set up, it is so much easier to navigate and sign in to the classes.  Please remember that I need to keep numbers up in order to keep the cost down!!! So do tell your friends that they need online Pilates in their life!!!

Remember - from now on, you can see all class info on the live calendar.

Next week watch out for the Pelvic Floor mini workshop with  Pelvic Health specialist Karen Macleod and yours truly and coming up during this block we also have more HIIT (maybe not wearing a fleece onesie!!!!)  Pilates and Prosecco and After class coffee

Class info for next week. Block 8. Week 3

Red - int/adv   Orange - mixed ability   Green - all levels 

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss the class levels and what will suit you best. 

Get a tennis ball and give your feet a massage before you start the class.

Monday   9am  Roller and Magic Circle

Tuesday  8am - Just mat

             9am.  Hand weights - tins of soup will do

Thursday   8am. Fit band, miniloop or flexiband tied in a loop

                 9.15  -Have your block

Thurs 12.30pm  - Christmas cracker class - Pelvic Floor mini workshop. Exercises from me along with a talk from Pelvic Health Physio and Specialist Karen Macleod. 12.30pm Christmas Cracker Club

Friday.      8am. The 12 Moves of Christmas..... no equipment and no partridges in Pear Trees required.

                9.15am. Just mat but always have your usual props. A lovely wrap up to the week with stretch, mobility and relaxation. Interactive. Start with foot massage as before. 

Please drop me a line/give me a ring if you have any queries regarding equipment and how to substitute.