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

Knot rug making?

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.

No comment Ana - clearly the wisest course of action.

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

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

And j08

It was the headmistress of my school which sent me to do Keep Fit so it is a woman who is responsible for me being in these classes.

Frank

Hi j08.

I do not have time for reading or knitting.
I have got Bums and Tums classes to attend, dog walking, house cleaning and I spend some time on my laptop.
As soon as spring comes I have got to catch up with my garden.

Frank

I'd have thought knotting fringes would be more appropiate!

Or read a book. Have you been on the book club thread? Do give it a look.

Frank, get yourself some knitting to do.

Hi Ana

I don't think some of these classes have suddenly been hijacked.
Some of the men have been going for 20 years plus.
If you count the time I did Keep Fit at school and did classes in London I have been going for over 50 years.
How many women have been going for that time?.

Frank

Lilligran

Go out for a walk and get some exercise.

Frank

I hope anyone posting on this thread has read EVERY SINGLE previous post? I have and now I'm going to lie down for a bit in a dark room.

You love it really, gracesmum!

I think Frank is trying to make the point that some women ladies in his area are absolutely thrilled that their Bums and Tums class has been hijacked by the men-in-lycra brigade!

Who are you trying to help Galen?.
I think most of the women in our centre are either happy with a mixed class or don't mind a mixed class.
One of the ladies has said that they had mixed classes for 4 nights a week at a previous centre and a man had been attending all 4 for about 20 years.
The centre did propose that 1 of the classes should be women only but she said a lot of the women kicked up a fuss and said why did they want to exclude him when there had been no problems for all that time.
There were only about 5 women who had been going to the class for as long as him.

Frank

I can't believe this thread has been resurrected - you just can't keep it down can you

You can't help some people[shakes head sadly]

A new lady came along to Bums and Tums this morning. At the time she arrived there were 5 men and about 10 women.
She went back to the reception to query that she had got the right place and was back shortly after.
We then told her it was a mixed class and she smiled and said jolly good.
She came in with us and was in amongst the women.
At the end she came and said that the class was more fun when there were a few men in it.
She asked the class times we were there but unfortunately 2 of the men will not be there next Sunday as they work shifts although there may be one or two others.
She said she will try to drag her husband along to the classes and she has also said her son now has a girl friend and she is going to see if his girl friend can persuade him to come along with her.
She said she would far rather have men coming to Bums and Tums and getting some exercise rather than not getting any.

Frank

I thought it was Sutton Coldfield?

I used to live in Solihull and had PMI

Ah but has he always lived in Solihull? Look, there I go again.......I think he is economical with mnay truths....look I've done it again....

It's quite possible. People from Solihull don't know there are such things

Absent, don't encourage me - it's for my own good!!! I don't believe that he's never been in a NHS hospital.... look see what you've done, back to BBC Parliament

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