Good news. The ladies only classes have stopped at my leisure centre.

Who was also your mother-in-law later on. Yes, I think we have your biography straight now.

Hi absent

She has got to have been correct.
She was the headmistress of a school.
I don't really know if she thought she was putting me in that class as a punishment or if she expected me to be doing Bums and Tums 50 years later.
I had befriended her daughter at that point but I don't think she was sure at that time she would become my mother in law.

Frank

No comment Ana - clearly the wisest course of action.

jings see what you have started now with your knitting I have just come back from a nice relaxing afternoon with DD and youngest DGS5 and am now feeling stressed just reading this.

Knot rug making?

HUNTERF I cannot believe that anyone who suggested a keep fit class to you or anyone fifty years ago – which sure as hell was never called bums and tums then – would actually give a fig what you or anyone were doing all these years later. Btw Do you feel like revealing your waist and hip measurement to show us how much benefit you have derived from fifty years of bums and tums? Or not – it doesn't matter.

Hi absent

It was called Keep Fit 50 years ago.
The names have changed over the years but I think Bums and Tums is about the closest equivalent.
I was sent to this class. I had no option.

Frank

Condemned to a life of penal servitude in the Bums and Tums class....

It's not the fifty years that have done the damage, it's the Bums and Tums classes.

I hope this thread goes on forever - it's the funniest thing I've read in weeks (well, since the last time I read the thread)

It was called music and movement when i was in infant school.

Gosh Jess I taught that!

Music and movement for infants and music and movement for juniors - the teacher used to bring the school radio wireless into the school hall and we did things like bunny jumps.

Then it became 'Modern Educational Dance' !

We had a tape recorder at school.
We did not do things like bunny jumps in the secondary school.
We did things like the grapevine and plank.

Frank

I have just found out they are keeping 1 ladies only class open at another centre about 4 miles away.
There is no direct bus to it but any ladies who want that class could go there by car or bike.

Frank

Frank....you're priceless!

FFS!

They'd better get a move on before you and your pals have it closed down.

Aargh! The zombies are here!

Hi Riverwalk

We would like to have it closed down but there are not enough of us.
It is on a Tuesday morning at 10.30am.

Frank

Now you're just getting silly, Frank. It's four miles away. Your classes are not affected. Perhaps the men there aren't as obsessive as you are about men's 'rights'.

Frank - you sound like a man on a mission - but are you really such a spoilsport? For heaven's sake, it's as if it's become a point of principle now, can't you live and let live?

Hi Ana

There may be no men at presest who will be affected by this class but there may be one who works shifts may want to join this class in future.

I have been told they had a men only class a few years ago at this centre but nobody attended it so it was closed.

Frank

Quite.

Well, I'd say just mind your own business Frank. You've got your own way at your centre, let go......!