What have we been doing?
Read the reports below to see some of the activities we have been getting up to!
5 intrepid members of Hartest W I tried out a Zumba Class in Long Melford earlier this week.
These are our before and after pictures, can you tell which is which? - The clue is in the body posture and the red faces! There must have been approximately 60 ladies there ranging in age from teenage to mid 60's. The music was fantastic – very loud latin american beats, and we certainly tested out all our muscles with the dance moves. All in all a great night out, we are just hoping we can still get out of bed tomorrow! If you fancy something different – give it a go – it certainly kept us smiling.
Our New Years meeting went off with a bang – or rather wonderful music! We started the evening with a glass of Bucks Fizz, then after the business of the evening we held a “Desert Island Discs” session. All present brought their favourite piece of music to be played and told us why it was special to them, these ranged from childhood memories to childbirth memories! Then we discussed what luxury items we would take, again these were very varied – from packets of garden seeds to face creams to hunks of cheese! We disallowed requests for young hunky men! As you can imagine there was such a variety of amusing anecdotes, that most of the evening was spent laughing!
For our December meeting, on a bitterly cold day we went on a tour of the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, which was really faxcinating. 
It was quite an adventure peeping behind the scenes and seeing how it all works. Also, learning about the history of its Architect, the development over the years from a thriving theatre to a barrel store and back to a theatre again. Our guide, Mike, certainly knew his stuff and helped make the trip informative but fun and interesting at the same time. Our outing was completed bya delicious Christmas Lunch at The Greyhound, Chevington.
FENCING EVENING
On Thursday 17th October 7 ladies from Hartest W I attended a `taster` Fencing Class at Cockfield Village Hall.
Our tuto
r Steve taught us the basics of the correct stance, moving forward and backwards in a smooth way, lunging and also the parry and repost!
This all sounds quite serious, but there was plenty of laughter as we struggled with the movements.
We did not have to worry about hurting our fencing partners as were were all dressed in `plastrons` -which protect the right hand side of your body from your opponents epee, then padded jackets, thick gloves and also mesh face masks. Not the most glamorous of looks, but very safe.
We can confirm that fencing is physically very tough, even at our level!
It must have been a good workout for all of us.
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