I can hardly believe it’s been so long since my last post. It was when I was having a bone treatment and I suddenly realised that Christmas was only 4 weeks away and I was no where near ready for it! It did race up on us but we were just about ready for it.
We had a really lovely time busy with almost back to back visitors as usual. We also spent a night away!! We joined Bryony, Chris and Amelie at Dad and Chris’ on Christmas Eve and then got up together on Christmas Day. It’s about 30 years since Bryony and I woke up in the same house on Christmas Day and having Amelie who is now two around made it extra special. I love all the hustle and bustle and too-ing and fro-ing that Christmas brings and there was plenty of time for relaxing too.
One extra thing this year was laughter yoga! Virtually all visitors participated in sessions with me (mostly voluntarily!) Phil has a collection of photos taken of us, mostly during the relaxation or Yoga Nidra section at the end so it looks like we’re just lying around on the floor with blankets like kids on a sleepover!! I felt a real benefit from the sessions which motivated me to start my laughter yoga club.
In India, the clubs are held in parks. Unfortunately that’s not quite as practical in Norfolk so I booked one of the small rooms at Hempnall village hall for three sessions and made a poster! At the first session, two people came and we had a great time laughing together, at the second session, one of those two returned and 5 new people came! Last week we were 5, it is awesome to have people to laugh with on a regular basis. Last week I travelled down to Nailsea, Bristol to have a few days in the office and I did a session at lunch time. There were 12 of us, my biggest group so far! I was thrilled to have one colleague who I used to work a lot with in the session, afterwards this is how the conversation went:
Me: it’s so great to see you, I don’t know why but I wasn’t expecting to see you here!
Gareth: well, someone asked me if I was coming and I thought, you’re a nutter so it’s bound to be fun!
I had a lovely time, I really get loads of energy from laughing with others ?
In other news, I’m still working three days a week. Fridays I mostly lounge to recover from working then Mondays I mostly lounge to recover from the weekend and to prepare for working!
Today I am having a bone treatment and I know I’ll need a nap this afternoon and that I need to take extra care not to strain my back (by sitting in any position for too long) but it’s easy because I know what to expect now and most of the time I feel very ‘normal’.
I hope that you’ve all had a fabulous start to 2017 and that it continues to be so.
Talk to you soon
Lots of love Mand xxx❤xxx