28/04/2026
Me and my girl are similar in that we are pretty feral in our approach to personal appearance.
Comfort and ready-at-all-times for fun stuff is how we roll.
We have chipped nail varnish and messy hair and worn-in trainers.
What we do appreciate though, is the chance to dress up in a costume. Today Bean is playing Titania, off of Midsummer Night’s Dream fame 🧝♀️ and has been leaving rooms with the command, “fairies, away!” for weeks now.
She has an emerald green dress and actually took great care to get ready this morning. As part of that, I was tasked with doing her hair in some sort of fairy Queen bohemian crown sort of thing…
See above: we are messy and feral. She barely even lets me brush her hair. This was a big ask for both of us!
But LOOK! Look what despite my clumsy fingers and her flinching every 3 seconds managed to achieve.
We were even later for school than usual.
Worth it though. Fairies, skip hence!
10/02/2026
Then I helped myself to a chocolate but it turned out it was a hard chocolate so I had to let it melt in my mouth before I could eat it.
14/11/2025
Her sister responded with shock and horror;
“Powerful? That’s a horrible way to feel! You don’t want to feel powerful”
Interesting story: a new-ish client, 70+ years old, f’ing LOVING her training, let’s call her Mary because that’s her name, told her sister that she’s started feeling amazing - the word she used was “powerful”
I think Mary’s sister interpreted “power” to mean anger, or violence.
Mary rolled her eyes and said that was typical of her sister, never being on the same wavelength as her for their whole lives.
And I thought that was an interesting way to consider the impact of words you use and how people receive them.
It came up again when she continued talking about all the little things in her life that have been fundamentally changed in the 4 weeks she’s started strength training. She said “I know it all sounds small and silly” and I said “see how hard it is to sell to someone? and then you might say something like ‘powerful’ and scare them off!”
I joke, but seriously.
When it comes to talking to other women about strength training, as a coach and/or enthusiast, the secret is to listen to what strength means to them first. Then you can meet them there - because whatever they say they want to feel, we know being physically stronger will do it.
As a prolific attention seeker working on listening more and talking less, this is the post I needed to read today 🙃
Image: nice isn’t it? Nothing to do with the post don’t take Instagram tips from me.
14/10/2025
good things bad things
1. Thank you for the lovely bouquet
2. And all the soul food from
3. And the book loan from
3. Hospital drama 0/10 do not recommend
4. Hospital food 8/10 needed cheese
5. Showgirls 🧡
3. Workshop things (the depth we got into this time 👌🏻)
4. Hot Husband geeking out on damper settings + stroke rates
5. By the time I crossed this field the sky had turned bright pink but my battery died so you’ll just have to believe
10. Class classing without me like the elite athletes they are
11. Thankful for my ability to do pretty much anything with this body so that when a piece of it doesn’t work, the rest of it backs me up ❤️
02/10/2025
So we had this planning meeting for Saturday’s Erg Workshop. The Mr would just turn up and teach, knowing that it’s all in his head but I just CANNOT.
This is what I need:
I need a list. Many lists, in fact.
I need a schedule, detailed to the half hour.
I need to know who’s doing what and when.
I need to know how concepts are going to be communicated and whether we need to plan that to happen on the ergs or from a whiteboard diagram.
This is not because I am an organised person. I am not. At all.
The opposite, actually.
But I do NOT trust my brain to just teach what it knows.
Imagine?
Our kind of brain let loose when it’s liable to melt in the face of something complicated like “remembering how to speak English in front of people”
The Erg Workshop isn’t just to teach form and technique but it’ll also teach you what kinds of training challenges and quests you can achieve on an erg and how not to suck at them.
One place left due to a cancellation. Message me if you want to come and get so good on ergs people are watching you out the corner of their eyes wondering why you move so powerfully and smooth while they move all clumpy and knackered.
19/09/2025
1) Heard a line in a song “Yesterday I lifted your bodyweight” and decided to lift . Almost fainted. Did it though.
2) Took myself for lunch.
3) Got papped
4) vs (team Busted 👊🏻)
5) chin to chest flight
6) Friday night team 🔥
7) never not writing
8) Dad “K Pop what?”
9) The week the washing and tent got wetter and wetter every day and I just watched it
10) Flat pack assistant
11) Ginge in my camera roll
12) Paths Unwritten planning
13) pull-ups are stupid 🙄 (but I’m a show off so have to make sure I can always do them)
30/07/2025
Coventry UK, 22nd-24th August.
DM , or with any questions, for a link to all the details, and to sign up 🙌🏻
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