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Caroline's Power Pilates, Aqua, Fitness and Life

Pilates needs a mind and body connection. Breath is a main fundamental + live your movement❤️ It truly is an all over body workout.

I am a qualified PILATES, AQUA POWER PILATES, FITNESS & FREESTYLE GROUP EX. Instructor with over 25 yrs teaching experience in health & fitness with your safety and enjoyment as my top priority. PILATES helps make the body stronger, longer and leaner, helps aid flexibility ,muscle strength, balance and posture. Using the CORE [ correctly ] as the main source of control in all disciplines, but especially in PILATES also helps strengthen the abdominal's which in turn helps lower back issues and so much more. Really in short working from the inside out.�

My classes are aimed at all levels of fitness and age groups. Open to all, with a STRONG emphasis on SAFETY and CLEAR TEACHING POINTS. Participants are encouraged to work to their own fitness level, resting down when necessary. Modifications are given where possible for all Movements, making the classes achievable for all fitness levels and and abilities. I encourage Precision, flow, breath and mind connection throughout class, we also do balance, strength and cardio with time for stretch and relaxation. at the end of all of our classes, whether PILATES, FITNESS or AQUA. My SEA POWER PILATES
class is a "one of its kind " High Interval fitness class in the sea. The classes lasts for 45 mins and you do not go outside of your depth. Please always check with a health professional before you embark on any new fitness regime or class you are thinking of attending for the first time, especially, if you have not been doing any structured exercise classes before. Classes are friendly and inviting with great people from all walks of life in them and coming alone should, I hope not be a problem. Now for the SEA POWER PILATES class. Class times
POWER/FITNESS PILATES� IN THE PARK��

MON 9.30 am
WED 5.30 pm
THURS 9.30 am
SAT 9.30 am. PILATES BANGOR ABBEY HALL.�
MON 6.30 PM
THURS 11 AM

SEA POWER PILATES ��
Mon 5 pm
Wed 7 pm
Sat 11. 15

So I wish you all luck and well being on your journey to find the fitness regime that suits you all individually and offers you something that helps make a change for you as an individual. Please feel free to contact me for any further information at pilates

Love Caroline xx

22/03/2026

Hello👋🏻,
It seems such a long time since I posted a life post.
I think constantly throughout the day and night to be honest about so many things I would like to share, but by the time I get time to write ✍🏻, my brain is worn out and I can't reface my thoughts 💬.
I am sure many of you can identify with that!
I am a mother, an empath, a carer, a fund raiser, a public speaker, a manager, a fixer, a shoulder, an educator, a listener...I hope..., a good daughter, respect my elders, and so much more, as most women I think tend to be in life!🤷🏻
No one has their sorrows to seek and it's all relative.
As Tom Hanks once said in his 1994 movie Forest Gump,
Mama always said,
" Life is like a box of chocolates🍫, you never know what your gonna get!"
However, I never had any expectations to be honest, I have always just taken whatever roll of the dice was thrown at me, dealt with it all the best I could and waited for the next thing to come along, and waited I have honestly done.
I have been holding my breath for so long now, I do believe it's getting the better of me.
In my life I have never asked why me, I have never felt sorry for myself, never felt anyone owed me anything and believed no one gave you anything for nothing, no matter what I have had to face.
I on the other hand have always thought why not me, it's life, things happen and you only have two options I think 🤔, you deal with it all the best way you know how to, or you give up and what happens then to all those others that maybe affected by that.
However, I truly believe that there are times when some no longer can see a way out, there is no light at the end of the tunnel, there is no way for them and I do not judge!
I think the holding my breath thing happened the day after my little boy Michael died, being a spokesperson for the British Bone Marrow Donor Appeal at that time, unknown to me it was all over the news by the time I got home that evening.
I just couldn't believe how the press got the information,no called or spoke to me, or asked if it was ok.
I know the founder of the appeal called me and asked if I might give my permission for the press to be involved in the moving of Michael from the house to the hearse and because I thought it would help the Appeal I agreed to that.
Anyway, I remember coming home to tell mummy not to worry ,everything would be ok, well I didn't want her to be sad as she had lost two of her own little boys.
I couldn't sleep, I couldn't lie down, so in the early hours of the morning I thought 🤔 I would take a walk in the quiet, in the silence of the day to try and think about all that had just happened, to visit my absolute grief and devastation, that hole so big in my soul I thought I would die.
I wanted the world to stop, just for a little while until I caught up and I am so sure that many of you will have experienced the same thing in the face of death and loss.
I never had that time and have never taken it since.
As I walked along the promenade, I saw my history teacher from school coming the other way.
I cannot tell you what either of us said, but I always remember feeling that I couldn't let him see me crying.
I swallowed my pain and have been swallowing ever since.
It really is a physical thing you know, it tightens the back of your throat and when the pain of grief starts to move within you, you have to swallow so hard just to hold it all down.
I know people say a good cry does you good, personally speaking it would leave me feeling like a 10 ton truck just ran over me.🤦🏻
Or it's good to talk, I don't disagree with that but again personally speaking I have no problem speaking about all of the tragedies in my life, but I have lived them and reliving them again by talking.
When you are holding all of your grief in places to allow yourself to still try and live and present some kind of normality, you can't afford to let anything open up the chasm deliberately.🤦🏻
In the main I do it well, but as they say life always has a way of doing it's thing I guess.
I find with my life as it is at the moment, everything and anything triggers the doors to my pain.
It is my job daily to swallow down on that tightening in my throat as much as I can.
This week my wonderful guys from class ask how I am, the fact that they care about me makes me emotional, how can I with all they have to deal with in their daily lives then throw anything of mine into the mix?
Well I just can't.
They are all a wonderful group of people from every class, they save me everyday I am with them.
They give me respite, while I worry about all of them, in all of my classes, every week, I am lifted away from my grief and newer reality that I live and transported to a clearer mind, a place of freedom, a space to breathe.
I see them, I am all about how and what they are doing, they are feeling, about their needs, what I can help with at any given class and I am grateful for everyone of them.
I know they know I care about them all, because they tell me and I am proud of them, what they have achieved, and what they know they can achieve.
I will never forget Mel from class telling some time back, that my classes are more than just classes, that I have built a community and when I see all those who come to classes, who had never met any of the others before, just chatting to each other, laughing together, I now believe what she said and I thank her for it🙏🏻
The burdens of life are sometimes so heavy 🪨 we fell we can never overcome them, that they will break us for good.
As I have told you all never give up, I know that it is easier said than done, but we have to keep trying ,we have to keep reaching for the light 🕯️, if we can.
You are stronger than you think.
I just want to end my post by saying thank you for now and always to all my people who attend my classes, who have attended them.... over the many years and who may attend in the future, I am there for you, as you have been for me, even on those days when I am swallowing hard not to let anyone see.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend 🫂 and keep your hearts up, as best you can.
Remember tomorrow is another day, it may not seem much different than the one today but keep your hope alive.
Lot's of love 💖 xx

20/03/2026

🙋🏻🙋🏻🙋🏻
I hope you can find some space and a little time to breathe and enjoy the warm sunshine.
Those attending 9.30am Park 🏞️ class tomorrow please text me your names and Aqua 🌊class will be as usually Sat 11.15am.
Next week will be Stretch classes 💪🏻
Well done to you all this week for your efforts and loyalty.
It never goes unnoticed.
Some sights of life on my journey through the week , leaving for Monday afternoon class.
Beautiful daffodils, geese enjoying the sun 🌞 my wonderful classes at work and a beautiful sunset 🌇 as I was leaving class last night.
Great movie tip Reminders of him, it's excellent.🎥
Enjoy xx❤️
Lots of love to you all xx❤️🫂🙏🏻

15/03/2026

🙋🏻Thinking of all of you, remembering those you love and miss.xx🙏🏻🫂🖤

08/03/2026

🙋🏻I hope you all had a good weekend.
Your classes for next week are.
In the Abbey💒
Mon 12.30pm
Mon 6.30pm
Thurs 9.30am *(⚽Swiss Balls )
Thurs 11am *( ⚽Swiss Ball )
Thurs 6pm *( ⚽Swiss Ball)
*Swiss Ball not essential for class.*
In the Park 🏞️
Sat 9.30am
In the Sea 🌊
Sat 11.15am
Take care, stay safe and see you soon.💖xx

04/03/2026

🫶🏻Great to get back to class and well done to Monday classes.👏🏻👏🏻

25/02/2026

Hi everyone🫶🏻
I hope you are well.
How amazing to see Jessie Buckley win the BAFTA for Leading Actress in the Movie Hamnet👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I went to see it is Belfast the first day of its showing.
It was an amazing film about love, loss, death, indifference, hardship, a women's role, poverty, discrimination, isolation, myth, legends.
It's about being different, feeling different, not feeling good enough, fear aloneness, loneliness and innocence.
It encapsulates so much in the length of the movie.
When Jessie's realised her child is dead, she lets out such a wail, a howling sound that any mother who has lost a child can identify with!
However it was what she did after the wailing sound had gone that struck my very soul.
Her breath had left her, as the sound went and she held her breath for so long after that her lips actually turned a blue colour and for me that was heart breaking.
That feeling that touches your very soul, and the death of part of yourself when that little body you loved has gone.
I thought those moments were just utterly amazing, so sad, so heartbreaking, a piece of filmatography that almost touches a memory so deep in ones own soul, real and everlasting to those of us who have had the unbearable experience.
The role she played was incredible throughout, I love all of her stuff and not to forget that Paul Mescal is also an incredible actor, they made a great connection and it showed.
They are friends in real life, and that helped.
Fantastic!
I told my classes about the movie I Swear, which was incredible, I loved the movie
One thing after another, with Di Caprio and Benicio Del Toro was also Fantastic I loved that movie and saw it twice but I guess the role of Robert Aramayo had to top them all.
Roberts role in that movie was nothing short of amazing.
Such a challenging and difficult think to have to live with for John Davidson, then for Robert to have to bring that to the screen to help educate people about it, he was just incredible and so amazing for him to win the BAFTA.
He was up against such a wealth of talent and their roles in their movies were excellent but his was well deserved.
As some of you from my classes know, I do love to go to the cinema on my own and lose myself where possible in a great movie.
It my little bit of time to me, I can't escape the world, I can't fix all the things that surround me, when the sadness, the grief is heavier on some of those days, that's where I will be in screen, 3 or 7 or 11most of the time with only me, sometimes with 3 or 4 others, never at night, always on a day time and just for the length of the film my mind is quiet, my world is still, a little bit of calm which I am unable to find space and time for, except in the cinema.
Take care and stay safe.
Lot's of love 💖 xx

23/02/2026

Hi everyone,🫶🏻
Hope you are all well.🙏🏻
I happened to catch the end of The Stephen Nolan Show Monday morning 2 weeks back, and as he was finishing up he was chatting to the two presenters of the show following his, I think it's The Vinny and Cate Show!🤔
They asked him what he was doing and he said he was stretching, he said he always has a stretch at the end of his show!
They were having a bit of a laugh about it and Stephen said to them, don't be talkin to me about Yoga and that Pilates thing, what is Pilates anyway,🙄 to which the female presenter... I think it's Cate ..answered by saying, Pilates, it's just Fancy Stretching!🤯
Really my jaw dropped,
I was in disbelief, I just couldn't believe what she said and I thought of all the listeners listening to the end of Stephen's show and the start of The Vinny and Cate show who knows nothing about Pilates, now thinking it's 'A Fancy Stretching class' !
I was so taken back I actually told my own class later at 12.30pm what was said!
They know how passionate I am about the discipline and they asked me if I had rang in to the show, 😉
I would have but I was listening to the show after it had finished!🤷🏻
I just do not understand why there is so much mis information out there about Pilates!
The myth that's it is like Yoga, no they are completely different!
So it is not!🙅🏻
The myth that it is only for older people who can no longer jump around any more, not true.🙅🏻
It's all stretching, not true.🙅🏻
Pilates is always done lying down! Not so!🙅🏻
The breathing is too difficult, not so!🙅🏻
You should push your back down into the floor, when doing floor work, not so!🙅🏻
(Could possibly create Issues for those with weak lower back or disc problems, or Sacroiliac issues, ( core engagement using the breath is better.)
Pilates is all done lying on a mat, not true!🙅🏻
Pilates is made up of strength and mobility movements, yes there may be some classes that focus more towards the mobility side and that will be more suited to some.🤗
In general Pilates is a full body workout, combining strength and mobility, dealing with flexibility, posture, form, centering and breath they are some of the main fundamentals!
It can be as challenging or as easy as you want it to be.
I can only speak for myself but Pilates is so much more than just a class, I believe it to be an education.
Being a Group Exercise and Pilates teacher for over 28 years, Caroline's Power Pilates, Aqua, Fitness and Life Pilates i is about helping people to a better understanding of why they are doing the movements we do in class, what muscles and joints are being used and are affected by the movements!
If people have a better knowledge of their own bodies, they are more aware when something's not right!
Classes should always be encouraged to work to their own ability, to rest down when necessary, to always be aware of their breath as the breath affects the pelvic floor muscles and the stomach and simply engaged the core muscles🤷🏻
Hyper extension of the back during movements should be avoided and can only be avoided when class understands, not just what that means, but how to at least help prevent it!
The most important thing regarding the breath is not to stop breathing or hold your breath when going through the movements, as people naturally tend to hold their breath when working out of putting the body under duress.
Modifications should be offered to help make classes achievable for all levels of fitness!
Variety is always very important to me, when teaching exercise and any fitness discipline so as not to encourage boredom!
Challenge is important also so people can feel good about achieving more than they maybe thought they could do!
There is so much more to Pilates than appears to be really known and it's such a shame.
There is also a slight difference in some thinking between classical and contemporary Pilates
Throughout my teaching life and being a Free style Fitness Group Exercise teacher, teaching multiple disciplines... and who still teaches those different disciplines to my classes...I believe that Pilates is the biggest gift to be able to pass on to others.
I believe it helps so many people in so many ways, both big and small.
In my teaching life it has been the most rewarding discipline to reach out to others and help them with everyday issues.
The feedback I have received over the years has made it all worthwhile for me, the gift of being able to help make someone's day a little brighter, a little less painful, a little more mobile, is what
my teaching life has been all about! 😔
Pilates is a mind to body connection, visualization is a very important part of Pilates in order to help those in class to connect better with what they are doing and in helping them feeling it happen.
If you are in class thinking about what groceries you are buying at the weekend, one might find they are not connecting with their body or movement and what needs to be done😉
I have always told my classes that they have to live the movements, it's just not enough to do a movement if the head is elsewhere, it just doesn't work the same.
I have taught rugby players, rowers and boxers, all strong, fit professionals who would have and did credit themselves of having a strong core, yet telling me personally that they never realised just how challenging working the core actually is, done properly.🤷🏻
So as I mentioned you should always be encouraged to work at your own level, be monitored throughout class and be aware of what you are doing, why you are doing it and how you are doing it and some need help with all of those aspects!
Pilates is beneficial with balance, strength, mobility, flexibility, relaxation and breath, all of these things and more and will affect everyone of us at sometime as we all age.
Knowing how to just breathe, benefits our bodies internally more than you think and is very important also.
While that all sounds very formal, we do have a laugh, for some re6its usually at their instructor.
There should always be an element of laughter in fitness also, I think.
So for those that may think that Pilates is about ' Fancy Stretches', think again as that explanation couldn't be further from the truth.
I wish you all well in whatever discipline you may chose to follow, look after yourselves, take care and stay safe.
xx🙏🏻❤️

22/02/2026

Hello everyone.🫶🏻
Such wet weather but a little bit sunny today!🙄🤔.
I just wanted to let you know that I won't be teaching any classes next week.🥹
I know it's disappointing for all of us but all being well all back to normal Monday 2nd March.
It will give you a little break from😉.
Take care and stay safe and look after yourselves.🤗
If there is anything you need me for, a little advice or an ache or new pain, please do text me!🙏🏻
Lots of love 💖 xx

15/02/2026

🤗 🤗 🤗 🤗
I Hope you all had a lovely weekend.🙏🏻
Nice to see a little respite from all that rain 🌧️.
Well done to all my classes this week as always,👏🏻 then finished up the week spending St Valentines Day💖 morning with my Park 🏞️ and Aqua 🌊 ladies, couldn't have shared it with nicer people and we gave ourselves the first hug 🫂 of the day!🤗
Cold frosty 🥶 morning but no wind, the sea was lovely and calm but cold, as you might expect.❄️
I do like to get in when we can as it makes such a difference for everyone, lovely Anne was telling me how she hadn't had to use her knee bandage at all last week except for Friday and if we don't get into the sea her pains return....so I always like to get in, weather allowing...so it helps to keep her pain levels way down.🤗
Makes what we do sooooo worthwhile. 🙏🏻
It's definitely not for the faint hearted especially in the winter months❄️🌧️🌊
Yes, it's as you would expect very cold but having said that, it's more the heavy rain when trying to get dressed, as we have no shelter there at all🤷🏻, it's the wind chill🌬️🌬️ factor, especially on a lower tide🌊 and it's a combination of both of those on a bad weather day, that's more bother The water is always cold ❄️ but the body does get aclimatized to it, you must always respect the sea!
It has a life and will all of it's own, it is ever changing, it is strong and forceful 💪🏻and in moments it can be calm and serene.😌
It's not always what you see in front of you, but what is happening way out at sea!
You can have a calm day with no wind and the sea can be choppy and angry and another day you can have a storm brewing and the sea is so calm.
It's crucial to be aware of under foot and tide levels below the feet.
Strongs winds can move rocks inland and dislodge rocks and stones and leave them where you don't expect them!
Where we are, there are rocks encased in barnacles on our left hand side, if you are there at high tide, unless you know the area you can't see 👁️ them, that's not safe so you need to know what's below the surface of the sea where you are.
The ground is lower ...behind those rocks... closer to the old boat slipway... You think it is online with that area but if you move into the middle it is a lower level!
If there is a strong wind 🌬️ and your feet are not on the sand you can be blown over, un noticeably, towards the rocks in that area and then can't put your feet to the ground!
The sea levels are not the same 🤦🏻so it is so important to be alert, as much as is possible, at all times.
Other users of the sea on windy days also can be a danger, especially on a low tide 🌊 when they may be moving at speed and if you are behind a wave they will not be looking for you or seeing you, so it is always good to wear a bright woolly hat not just to keep heat in your body, but you hope to make you seen more easily.🤷🏻
For me, It's never just about going in and coming out, there are so many things to keep in mind, it can be a mindfield!🤯
It's about NEVER over staying your welcome, once your body starts to re chill, always get out as it won't rewarm a second time.
When out especially if there is a cold wind chill, get dressed quickly from top to bottom, always have another dry warm hat to replace the one you wore in, although it is fine if it didn't get wet, don't stand in bare feet, plenty of warm clothes, and close fitting as personally dry robes are fine to finish off with, but they sit too far out from the body to keep the heat in and in the winter months don't wait until you get home to take wet stuff off, but of course we can be in the water for a little while so I am speaking if what we do!
Moving around for a little while when you get home helps to keep any chill away.
I don't recommend a shower 🚿 unless starting off with cool water, if you must, and build it up from that!
Everyone is different, as I say different strokes for different folks, some like a warm bath 🛁 so it's what works for you personally, no two people are the same.
Well I didn't expect my post to be about being in the sea, but there you go!
Class for next week will be
In the Abbey
Mon 12.30pm
Mon 6.30pm
Thurs 9.30pm (Big Balls)
Thurs 11am ( Big Balls )
* Big balls not a pre requisite as everything can be done with out a ball, as you already know.
* Due to some appointments there will be No Thurs 6pm class, No Saturday 9 30am Park class and No Aqua.*
I know, you will be disappointed 🙄but can't be helped.🙏🏻
See you soon and whatever You are doing take care and stay safe.
xx🫂❤️🙏🏻

08/02/2026

For mummy.❤️
You held my hand throughout my life.
I will hold yours forever.
So many moments shared together.
Throughout all the storms we have weathered.
Sometimes it's so heavy mummy
But I try to carry on.
The changes are hard to watch mummy but my love still carries on.
I am so afraid and stoic as I am.
The moments come to break me, but still I master on.
Sometimes I find it hard when my thoughts I can't erase.
I shake my head to stir them knowing, they are never gone.
You have always been a beauty.
Such grief you have survived.
Sometimes there was survivors guilt to have ended up your remaining child.
You taught me how to live a life against adversity.
I think of yours and wonder, was that how it was meant to be?
I look into your face and the beauty you still are.
I look at every new moon and want to tell you to look.
The strength you helped to give throughout my broken times, it's fading fast at moments and I cannot hold the line.
I dare not let the dam break mummy, as I can't hold back the tide.
What will I do mummy when you are not at my side?
I loved when I'd come home from class and you would wait for me at the gate.
It never ever mattered that I would get home a little late.
I loved our chats ,you'd ask how class went and I bring you up to date, I'd give you a kiss, say goodnight and wave at you as I closed my gate.
For all those years we lived so close and even that was taken from us when they made us separate!
When I was young I used to pray I would have you all my life.
I don't like to dwell on my thoughts too much, as the pain is hard to manage.
But, it was just a moments lapse mummy, my wall is up and I will contain the damage.
I love you mummy and I am so sorry for what you have had to suffer.
No one knows the road we have travelled and the lives that we have salvaged.
But we are still here, we still have each other, you taught me so much of life lessons You were beside me when my heart was so broken, I wondered how I would survive.
It is breaking now, but I won't let you see, I will be strong as you would want me to be.
Nite nite mummy, see you in the morning DV.🙏🏻🫂❤️

07/02/2026

Life post!🫂
Well hello again👋🏻👋🏻
Missed not posting for a while but life, as you know, just always has a habit of getting in the way!🤷🏻.
In my last post I was speaking about the loss of our... well mummy's beautiful Shih Tzu Beau.🐕
When he passed away a couple of years ago he was nearly 17 years old, but definitely didn't look it.😥
Mums vet wrote her a beautiful letter after his passing, to tell mummy that Beau's long life was testimony to how well she cared for him.
It was so true.
We have always had dogs, animals, when I was growing up, mummy had hens🐓🐔, a goat🐐 that needed a home and no one would take him, so yes of course mummy did!🤗
I remember one day he ate everything she had on the line.😉😂
I never knew what it was like not to have dogs.... cats but they found us....
budgies, hamsters and the rest with us, mummy homed anything that she thought was hungry, it was and still is, testimony to her kindness, compassion and respect for all living things!
I remember my beautiful little brother Phillip's hamster got under the floor boards and mummy didn't stop until she lifted the floorboards to find him and she did!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I always worried about Beau dying and how mummy would be, he was her constant companion, they were literally a real team and he helped her to survive having been forced to leave her home, business, social set up, memories and the life she had known for over 46 years....for the supposed benefit of the QPD, you know that thing that has been ready to go for over 40+ years 😡and still counting.
At least having him was somewhat of a reminder and a living connection with the life and memories she had in her home! He was so important in the upheaval that she has suffered and is still suffering from!
With his loss the connection was gone, there was nothing left for her except living in a home she doesn't like, in a place she never wanted to be, at a time in her life that should never have happened.
Yes, I know she has me, but it's not the same, I know what I mean.🙇🏻
😠Mummy took his death so badly, so she was left with no living thing from her life at home in Carolesta.🙂‍↕️
More personal grief she had known so well since losing her 2 little boys, Allan at 18 mths and Phillip at 10 years old.🖤
So, I suppose🤷🏻 there is never a right time to get a dog, having lost one, you never want to feel that sense that you are replacing them, when you never could!😱
When you have known grief and loss it's almost like a second skin, it just becomes part of you, you are never free from it.
I wanted to help, I needed to not see her suffer again, but I was also grieving for mummy and now his loss also!
I remember thinking to myself if there was a way that it was possible to borrow someone's dog for sometime, to walk it, to share it, to care for it, and to even love it🤷🏻
I actually remember the day so well!
I was teaching one of my classes in the park 🏞️ and I remember saying to one of my ladies Mel, it would be great if you could borrow someone's dog!🤔
I remember thinking how great that would be, but also thinking that no one might want to share their dog as it's such a personal thing!🤔
I even remember thinking of maybe putting a post up looking to borrow a pet, but completely talking myself out of it as I thought 🤔 it might, or could be seen as strange, weird, even unbelievable!🤯
Then would you believe it, I just happened to be looking at something on my phone recently when this ad came up
called ' Borrow my dog' and I just couldn't believe it, mainly because I thought what a brain wave that was, if I had just followed my idea further.
For all the doubts I had that people wouldn't be interested, I think it's actually an amazing idea.👏🏻
Think of all those that work, who have animals and don't want them stuck in the house all day on their own and many, many multiple reasons why of course there are those out there who would be grateful for someone to befriend their dogs and pets.🤦🏻
So yes, I want to Borrow someone's doggie!🙏🏻
I was doing some tidying up as you do, you know de cluttering, emptying that cupboard or wardrobe that you said in your 🙂‍↕️ you would do a hundred times and have never done, or at least I haven't!🙄
I think it's something we all intend to do and never get to.
You know the saying...
' Procrastination is the thief of time'.... and how true is that?
It's one of the truest things ever said!🧠
I am ashamed to say I still have boxes📦 that I brought with me..... when I was put out of my home... for the QPD over 13 years ago..... that I still haven't got around to doing.🤫
It's another truism, ,' you can't go back '😧 and that's probably why they are still waiting!🤦🏻
Some have names for getting rid of rubbish and things you don't need, Margareta Magnusson calls it ' Swedish death cleaning' however I don't think it's just the Swedish that needs to, or do, do it!
I have been talking myself into de cluttering for years now, long before someone put a name to it, I just do bits at a time😉.
Two days ago, I came across a necklace and bracelet that I wore when I appeared on ' The Terry Wogan' show ... to talk about
The British Bone Marrow Donor Appeal... just four or five months before my little son Michael died.
I couldn't believe it, I was in London the day before the show and picked up a black trouser suit and the little necklass set to wear, from Tottenham Court road.
I had a video of the show but can't find it, but I think the BBC have it in their archives so I must contact them and see if I can get a copy.🎥
The actor from the film Bed k***s and broomsticks was appearing on the show the same night, I think it was David Tomlinson, I am sure there was a third guest, 🤔 Can't think of the other person!
Anyway I think for now I will houl me wheesht for now.
So Borrow my Dog is a real thing, it was and is a great idea to put people together who love animals and for whatever reason maybe can't have one full time, or fear losing another, or just want to share some love, if they have plenty to go around.
Getting rid of years of things you no longer need is another great idea, one that not only frees up space but clears your mind, it allows more space not only in your drawers but in your head and a mind with less in it can sometimes be a very freeing thing!😔
On a lighter note the weather has been a pain, our Aqua has been waiting to get back in for a couple of weeks now.
The sea 🌊 as I have always said must be respected, it has a whole soul of its own, it can be angry 😡 and fierce, it can be calm and quiet 🤫, but it iss ever changing.
I have seen days when the wind 🌬️ is gale force, yet the sea is serene 😔 and days when the when the day is calm and peaceful, yet the sea is loud and angry.😡
We made it today, it was choppy,🌊 windy,🌬️ dark and a little uninviting but the sails⛵ were out and so were we.🤗
The - wind 🍃 chill is never nice, but we had a great class, the one in the park 🏞️ earlier was damp, wet💧 and dreary but again we got stuck in as we always do and enjoyed it anyway.🤗
Oh and I just wanted to say well done👏🏻 to Michelle who attended our Aqua🌊 for her first time, good job👏🏻 and of course to my Aqua diehards🌊 and to all of my classes all week for their enthusiasm, trust, and just for being there with me.
Have a lovely weekend everyone, take care and stay safe.xx🙏🏻🫂❤️

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