Hands up who used to play tennis as a kid? Hands up who have been thinking about getting some friends together for a knockabout? Well think no longer and JUST DO IT. You have no excuses, especially as Nike and the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) recently launched Tennis Tuesdays across London. Offering exclusive women-only tennis…
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Week 01 of Beginner’s Ballet at City Academy
The thing I was most excited about? Ballet shoes and The Barre. My relationship with ballet ended promptly when I was twelve; the secondary school I moved to didn’t offer it and thinking back, I didn’t even notice that ballet was off the menu. My memories of ballet are a mix of pain (wide-pronged Kirby…
Swimming IS FUN: A Guest Blog
Swimming. It’s splashy, hard work and the lesson that most school kids tried to avoid, usually with forged sick letters. However, these are memories from childhood. Surely swimming’s different now? Dan Millington discusses. For the vast majority of people, the very smell of a swimming pool conjures memories of either having to wear embarrassingly revealing swimming…
Bloggers Required – One to Watch: I’ve been Nominated!
It’s not often I emit girly squeals; they’re generally reserved for the likes of giant, girl-eating spiders (any spider in my view is capable of eating people), but getting an email through from Bloggers Required telling me I had been nominated for their One to Watch scheme was rather exhilarating. One to Watch is a…
Jiggling Boobs & How to Control Them
Aside from going all Amazonian and chopping off my boobs, it seems as though for those who do sport, jiggling boobs is just ‘one of those things’. Unless that is, you have a super powerful sports bra. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want a solid mass on my chest but rather something that doesn’t…
Taking the Plunge – The Speedo App Review
To say I like swimming would be an utter lie. I feel the same way about it as cats do and whilst unfortunately I didn’t have claws as a kid, I did have forged sick notes. If only swimming was more fun! As a kid up to the age of twelve, swimming was a torturous…