Category: Health

Great news for those wishing to try Tai Chi as a new 7 week course for beginners will start in June, 10.30am to 11.30am on Wednesday mornings at the Fleckney Sports Centre, Leicester Rd, Fleckney, Leicester LE8 8BG.

According to the author Warren Berger in his book, ‘A More Beautiful Question,’ some studies reveal that four-year-old children can ask as many as 400 questions a day. Many children between the ages of two and five can ask around 40,000 questions! The word ‘question’ comes from the Latin, ‘to seek’, thus linking the idea to that of a journey or quest.

With winter behind us and the prospect of a nice summer ahead (hopefully) we know that this is the time that a lot of people start to think about summer holidays and the shape they'd like to be in when they go.

The French novelist Marcel Proust famously said (paraphrased slightly), “Real voyages of discovery consist, not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes”.

The New Normal Cancer support group is having an Easter Bingo session on

Osteopaths care about all of you, from the top of your head to the tips of your toes.

A very successful Couch to 5k program has now been completed. We had a great turnout at the Market Harborough parkrun on a lovely sunny Saturday morning.

My wife and I have long enjoyed watching gardening programmes on TV. We have however noticed over the past couple of years that some garden designers/presenters increasingly describe quiet spots in the garden as being ‘zen’. They’re not entirely wrong, though Zen amounts to more than just peace and quiet. The word itself comes from the Chinese chan, meaning quietude. Before that it derives from a Sanskrit term meaning meditation, Sanskrit being the classical language of India. Although Zen has a long connection with Buddhism, it can also be seen as a philosophy and method for “rediscovering the experience of being alive” these are the words of Mark Watts, son of Alan Watts, who was one of the great popularisers of Zen in the west during the mid to late 20^th Century.

From 1 March the Billesdon Dispensary’s new opening hours became:

As I write this, the sun is streaming through the window.  Do we dare hope that spring has sprung? The daffodils are out in the garden at our café and, hopefully, it’ll be warm enough soon for customers to make use of our outdoor area when they visit us.