Celebrating the small things: goodbye, September

Despite the dire warnings from the weatherman, today has been a lovely autumn day with light winds and bright sunshine - what you'd call a 'good drying day' if you were a proper housewife.

It has been an uneventful week. It's always worth acknowledging it when nothing has gone wrong! I ventured back to a dance fitness class on Monday for the first time in many, many weeks. Same teacher, but a new venue and a new style. Goodbye, Zumba: hello, SOSA! Have you come across this? It loosely means solo samba, but I'd describe it more as Zumba Lite. It's got all the lovely Latin beats, but it's low impact. To be honest, it was a bit tame, but it no doubt did me more good than sitting on the settee.

I went for a routine midlife MOT with the practice nurse this morning, where I was pleased to learn  that my BMI, waist measurement and blood pressure are spot on. I might celebrate this evening with a glass of wine, which I'm sure is beneficial to my wellbeing.

As always, I'd love it if you could leave me a comment. Have a great weekend, folks.

It's a dangerous world!

I survived Booiaka. It's really good fun, so I hope the gym books a regular slot.

On another dance-related matter, my friends and I turned up for Zumba last week to find the hall all locked up. We put this down to the fact that it was half term and thought the teacher must have forgotten to tell us the class was cancelled. But no. Turns out she'd been arrested as part of a drugs bust. We were all astonished. You hear people say, 'He seemed such a nice young man,' when their neighbour is arrested. Well, we know  how they feel! Happily for us we have a replacement teacher who put us through our paces good and proper this morning.

And linking one legal story tenuously to another, according to our local paper, my town is the most dangerous in the county for posties. A closer reading of the story revealed that in 2008-10, 19 posties were bitten by dogs - which doesn't sound a lot to me, but then I wasn't one of the poor souls attacked. I'd better tread carefully next time I venture out!