Happy New Year

Some lovely predictions for 2010
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3zJm98UXzQ

Happy New Year to all of you.

Christmas Greetings

Happy Christmas to you all, and Thank You for all your support this year. Body and Sole has gone from strength to strength and I have been amazed at how well the transition to Clinic work has gone. Having my own premises makes me feel as though I have actually arrived. My focus has sharpened and I am feeling much more efficient both in my work, and in my home life (the house has never been so organised and tidy!) It has been fabulous to realise that so many people have been thinking positive thoughts about this project, and I assure you that has really spurred me on. Thank you.

You may remember that each year Dave and I make a donation to a charity instead of sending Christmas Cards. This year Dave chose the Help for Heroes charity and we have sent a donation to them. If you want to know more about what they do then the link is http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

All that remains is for me to wish you a Happy and Peaceful Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

Terry Smith Memorial Race 2009

At the end of November Sam and I went up to Covenham Reservoir to take part in the Terry Smith Memorial Race. The weather was very odd with a very sharp hail storm filling the boat with ice whilst we were getting ready, and then the wind dropped completely. The race was postponed until a tiny amount of breeze filled in and then whilst we were actually on the water the sun came out! For an account of the race and some photos follow this link www.covenhamsc.co.uk Scroll down to the Terry Smith 2009 link on the left

Christmas Present Idea

If you are still wondering what to buy for a Christmas present then a Gift Voucher could be the ideal present. How about one for a Full Body Massage, or a Reflexology one. Or even a DeTox massage for them to use after all the festivities. For an older person, a voucher for Chiropody might be ideal. You can contact me on 01522 704294 if you would like to discuss it further.

Anyone who mentions this blog can receive a £5 discount on the voucher of your choice.

Money Making Mondays

You will probably remember that I mentioned that Adi Green, a friend of mine, has been helping me with promoting my business (to great effect). Well, he has now started to give business advice via his email called "Money Making Mondays". I'm already a subscriber and if you are in any sort of business then I highly recommend it to you.

As a bonus for signing up you also get access to his special download page where there are lots more special reports and business tools to help improve your business.

He's promised that your email won't get passed on to anybody and that you can unsubscribe any time.

You can sign up via his website http://www.adriansgreen.com/sally.htm

Me and Pudsey

What an amazing 24 hours. The dancing and the massage just flowed all night. I must admit that it is the first time I have massaged to jive music, and it took a while to tune it out a bit so that I could slow the moves down! The tea dance was the best when they were waltzing, although the 6am to 8am slot would probably been good with DJ, Dr Chill, who played some lovely slow numbers. Unfortunately I was past massaging at that stage, or indeed standing. Apologies to anyone I danced with at that time of the morning, my brain had switched off and my legs wouldn’t have heard anyway.

I was lucky enough to be one of those interviewed for Radio Lincolnshire and you can hear the interview if you listen before Friday 27 2009 on www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0053bh2/William_Wright_20_11_2009/
You need to fast forward to 2hours and 52 minutes into the programme to hear first Oliver Dawson who was being massaged, and then me. Thank you, Oliver for being so complimentary about the massage.

In all I did around 25 massages (15 minutes each) and raised £155 for Children in Need. The ’24 on the Floor’ raised a grand total of £3711 and I was really proud to have been a part of it all. The winner of the Free Prize Draw for a Gift Voucher for a No Hands Full Body Massage was Mrs Margaret Bird of Lincoln. Well done to her.

Talking of Gift Vouchers, they do make a nice present for Christmas.

Massage-athon?

Yesterday I was given a gentle reminder that I have not posted since October (oops). My only excuse is that I have been really busy, which is fantastic. Oh, and I have been on holiday to the marvellous county of Northumberland, and on another No Hands Massage Course in Hebden Bridge. This week is actually the first quiet(er) week that I have had since the clinic opened, and I am seizing the opportunity to organise paperwork and other essential admin work. I spent fifteen years in Admin work at the County Council and it has been a very useful basis for running my own business.

The new No Hands massages include a De-Tox massage that will be a fabulous start to the New Year for any of you who overdo it a bit over Christmas, and a couple of exhibition Massages that take just 15 minutes and can be used to showcase the massage at a public event whilst still giving the receiver a lovely treatment. Some of you will have the opportunity to try this out at the ‘24 on the Floor’ event for Children in Need on Friday 20th November. It is being run by Jive Fusion in conjunction with BBC Radio Lincolnshire at the Lawn in Lincoln and it is intended that there will be 24 people dancing at any one time for 24 hours. There are various types of dancing going on including classes for complete beginners. Find out more http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2009/10/14/cin_dance_feature.shtml

I shall be offering massages for a donation to Children In Need and will be there for the full 24 hours (I am intending to do some dancing too). I hope to see you there, I'll be the only one with her own pillows!