Family Natters

Total Fitness has 24 clubs mostly in the North West of England. Many of them incorporate:

an indoor running track
an enormous gym

a hydrotherapy pool (hot water + massage jets)

a cooler bigger pool for serious swimming

a warm children’s pool

exercise classes such as aerobics, step and spinning (stationary bikes)

sauna, steamer, plunge pool, […]

Some children do not walk at around 12 months when many do. With Annie, her birthday came and went without any sign at all of her wanting to walk. If you tried to stand her up she would lift her legs up so she wouldn’t have to. When she was 16 months and still not […]

Tonight James said, “It’s a great line up on telly tonight.”
“Brilliant!” I answered, thinking he meant something like a good drama premiere.
“Yeah; it’s Tonga V England on ITV, and Leeds V Saints on Sky .”
And how fantastic it is! James is trying to watch both games at once, so just as I start to […]

Annie is 20 months now and loves nothing better than to empty cupboards. You can tell where she’s been by following her trail of destruction. It’s like a battle between us: I quickly try to tidy up the bedroom while Annie rushes to Tom’s desk and throws his colouring pencils all over. I […]

The following list gives suggestions of what you might like to pack for a hospital labour. Obviously some things may not apply to you.

maternity Records

comfy long shirt or T-shirt for labour

massage oil

sponge water-spray to cool down

TENS machine

music

camera

favourite snack/ drink

Slippers + dressing gown

2 x Front […]

I hereby nominate James as the most annoying man ever. Here is just one of many reasons why:
I went on holiday without him (bliss!) and when I came back he had ‘cleared out’ my wardrobe for me, filled 3 bin liners with my clothes that he didn’t like, and was literally packing them into the […]

The Bourne Ultimatum is the best film I’ve seen in ages. I like it because it’s madly exciting without being all blood and gore.
What’s it’s about
This is the third in the trilogy of Jason Bourne films. It starts exactly where the 2nd film left off - when he’s on […]

Setting up Mozilla Firefox so it opens your favorite web sites on start-up takes only a few moments to set up, but may save you minutes every day.  So, do it now!
Simply:

go into Firefox

open up the first site you want by pressing control + T then finding the site

repeat for other favourite sites […]

These instructions presume you want to burn a single DVD i.e. not want chapters. 

make sure you have installed Architect Studio

insert a blank DVD

open Architect Studio

click ‘file’ then ‘new’

double click ’single movie’

find the file you want to burn and import it

click on ‘make DVD’ then ‘burn’

make sure ‘prepare current […]

Nursery rhymes really help social and language development in children. You can start from birth using a combination of picture books and singing from memory. Your child will enjoy hearing the same nursery rhyme repeated and will love watching your face and joining in with actions. I like 5 Little Speckled Frogs […]